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Newspaper Page TextTHE ADVERTISER. advertiser PUBLISHING CO. Cadartown, Ga., July 10. WK. BRADFORD, - Editor The W!M Luh Crortnlm*. We surrender much of our space this week to some interesting ex tracts from the report of the com mittee appointed by the legisiatnr to Surestig.ite the wild lavd transac tions of last year. It is an impor tant document and will give rise to snach discussion and, possibly to liti gation also. It discloses an amount carelessness and incapacity in the Comptroller-General's office that is really astonishing. That business of the magnitude and importance that theaaleof these w.Id lots for taxes had assumed should have been transac ted in inch a slovenly, careless and indifferent manner, even if there had been no laws pointing out how ii should be dune, is conclusive evi dence that the the office of Comp troller is sadly in need of a man who is able to grapple with the magni tude of the bnsinesi thereof in all its minute details and who will keep the records of the office in a way that something can be learned from them. It also neede a man who will purge his office of sll subordinates who are in any way mixted up with the crooked transactions of the land sharks. The Hill- Murpbi Maddle. Senator Hill has again seen fit to makehimself conspicuous in the mat ter of the investigation of the en dorsement of the Northeastern rail road bonds by the State. Probably SB public man in Georgia but Hr. Hill would have allowed his person al feelings to thrust him so promi nently forward in a matter where his actions and motives were so likely to be unfavorably construed. A great many people havn’t got sense enough to distinguish wherein Mr. Hill ap pears in a more favorable light iu the matter than Murphy. The only difference seems to be the difference between failure and success in the same undertaking. The venerable editor of the Savannah News, in the course of some remarks upon the subject, says: Mr. Hill admits that. “propriety” forbids his appearing as prosecutor before the Legislature. It would seem that the same sense of propri ety, if it did not prevent him from making the original charge of cor ruption, should deter him now from attempting to influence the decision of the Legislature. All the “indis putable facts” of the case have been thoroughly investigated, and Mr. Hill is sustained by neither the ma jority nor the minority report of the investigating committe . Under these circumstances it would seem that Mr. Hill might safely leave the mat ter in the discretion of the General Assembly, who have the honor of the State and of the Democratic party and the principles of right auil justice quite as much at heart as himself. School Catalogues Received. We acknowled; e receipt of the an nual catalogue of Wesleyan Female College of Macon, Ga., the oldest fe male college in the world and cne of the very best. From the an nouncement before ns we judge that it is in a prosperous, flourishing con dition, as it merits to be. The cata logue is issued from the press of J. W. Burke & Co., and is a very jewel of neatness and elegance in typog raphy. The catalogue of the Gaylesvillt (Ala.) High School indexes a most marvelous development of that young giant. It has scarcely cast off its swaddling clothes and yet it is so large that it hardly knowsitself. Its enterprising principal having put himself -full abreast of the moat ad vanced thought of the day in his profession is now casting about for uew worlds to conquer. If somebody doesu’t develop something new and useful in the science of teaching very soon he will feel called upon to de it himself. The Seventh Annual Announce ment of the North Georgia Agricul tural College is also on our table with the compliments of the secre tary and a p .litc request to “care fully examine,” “notice editorially,” “send marked copy,” etc. As this is a State institution we are all dinctl interested in itscareer. The disastrous fire of December 20th last which des troyed the college bidding pro red hut a very bratf check upon its growth and its.fulness. Its officers and friends rallied and improvised temporary accommodations for pro- femors aud teachers and the work moved on with an intermission of only about 48 hours. The atten dance since the fire has increased in stead of diminishing, as wonld have been expec.cd. This institution is apparently in proper hands anil seems to be doing splendid service. If the facts stated by the president of the local board of trust es, Hon. W. P. Fr ee, give a correct history of the finances ot the institution aud of the State’s obligation to supply a suitable buil ding we thii k the amount the legis lature will be asked to appropriate (♦20,000) a very moderate s-im, con sidering the work to be done. Atlanta has a lawyer named Bray. There’s "eternal fitness” for yju. Atlanta. Df,a* Docroa: Nothing of im- nortance has yet been done. Every measure of any congiqaence which has come up or consideration in its regular order has been made the special order for some day next week. You Will observe on reading yonr daily exchanges that but one or two balla have been pnt upon their final passage in the^ouae, bntgood work, j remarkably good work, has been done in the way of defeating a num her of bills, and thus sweeping them out of the way of m >ru important matter. A bill entitled an act to encourage sheep raising, etc., was be fore the horse on last Thursday, and an amendment, allowing one dog, free of tax, to each head of a family, was adopted by a handsome majori ty. The vote clearly foreshadows the ultimate fate of the bill. It is the application of slow poison to it which will in the end it beyond the hope of a resurrection during the present scSBiun of the legislature. L is rather stange, but nevertheless true, that the most decide 1 opposi tion to this law comes from the sheep raising oountiea. I have talked with a number of senators and represent atives from the wire-grass counties, which yon know are the wool grow ing connties, and have found them as one man in their opposition to the measure. The measure will re ceive its support from the middle Georgia representatives. The north Georgia members are seemingly in different in regard to it, prefering, I think, not to meet the issue squarely if they can avoid it The bill was made the special order for next Thursday, but yon can safely rely upon the statement that it is, to all intents and purposes, already dead. I cannot, as yet, give yon any re liable information as to what will be done with the other pet measure of the State School Commissioner, the Moffet bell bunch. I can only observe that bnt little interest is manifested either in favor of or in opposition to it. The bill was read the third time in the houee on Sat urday and postponed on account of the absence of the introducer. This was one of the several hobbies of Bib Alston, aud since his death it is not known who will take the lead in urging its adopricn. A bill providing severe penalties against banks and banking institu tions—a forfeiture of both principal and interest—for contracting for or receiving usurious interest, which was defeated by a very small m-.jor- l y last Saturday, was reconsidered this morning af eran obstinate con test. The vote this morning indi cates, I think, a disposition on the part of the house to enact very strin gent usury laws. A bill was sent to the houBe this morning from the senate which pro vides the manner of fixing the com pensation of jurors in all the coun ties of the Slate, the Constitution requiring, you will remember, that this law shall be uniform through-, out the State. It has not yet been read iu the house, and I cannot, therefore, give you its precise pro visions. This is a measure in which the people of our county are espe cially interested and I will make ev.ry effort to have it passed in time for the grand juries of August Court to fix the fees of jurors in our county. Up to date everything is remark ably quiet on the N. E. Railroad bond question, that is, the Hill Murphy question. From close ob servation I am confident that Gov. Colquitt will be exonerated withont a dissenting voice in either branch of the legislature. I have not heard a single expression from any member which in any way charged or inti mated that the Governor did not act in good faith, with perfect honesty and integrity, in endorsing the bonds of this railroad. There are a few members -who would be glad to see the Governor's high moral character damaged, his good name stigmatized, but they dare not, I think, attack him in the face of the evidence and the strong current of opinion in his favor. The opinion prevails to some extent here that this question had something to do with the reconcilia tion of Messrs. Stephens and Hill. Whether this be true or not, they can certainly accomplish nothing in this matter exeept it be to injure the character and standing of Murphy, and surely with these men the game is >nert worth the candle. I will let you hear further from me on this qnestiou wheu it comes up for con sideration. I write hurriedly andean at present think of nothing further that would interest your readers. C. G. J. Atlanta, Ga., July 7th, 1879. Dr. A. J. Bril, clerk in the wild land office, seems to be a citiz u who might very appropriately be permit ted to serve the State in another ca- P ‘city—building railroads or mining coal, for instance. He is a man oi too much capacity to be pent up within the walls of the land office. It is said that the e'.-ctrc light used in the Madison Square Gar dens, in New York, yeild a light equal to that of 27,500 candles, and at one-tenth the cost of gas. Bnt the trouble about the light still i- its eneonomical adaptability to illn- miuation on a smaller scale, so as to be serviceable in dwellings aud busi ness houses. Iqwt af m WIN UN Csaurittee- 8*nte Frawi, MUnMni and aa Indefinite aanaat ft Incapacity. We present below some extracts from the report of the legislative committee that has been investiga ting the manner in which the sale of wild lands for taxes Iras been con ducted : * * * * ♦ After the most careful consider*- tion we could give it we have come to the conclusion that the transfer of wild lands fi. fas. by the Comp troller-General is unauthorized oy law. * * * * The act clearly contemplates no power or agency between the Comp- troller-Geueral and the sheriffs, bnt provides for direct intercourse be tween these officers. Any transferee com ng between them is an inter lope - , and an enemy to every inter est of the State and its citizens. In stating these views, we deem it proper to go further and Say tha* no title did or could pass at any sale had urder transferred fi. fas. There are two good reasons for this outside of all questions of frand. First. These sales are conducted by and dictated as to time, etc., by unauthorized parties who had no power to represent the State and the trne owners, as they seemed to do, manipnlating the sales and all their consequences to suit themselves, and whose interests are in direct conflict with the interests of the true owners of the land and the State. We assimilate these transferees to a stranger who unlawfully gets pos session of a fi, tae. and forces the defendant’s property to sale without the consent, of, or authority from the plaintiff who is especially inter ested in the resuk of the sale, and which is known to purchasers are bound to know i t these sales. The second reason we allnde to, why these sales were void, is, Gat when these transferees paid the tax to the Comptroller-General, snoh payment instantly became an extin guishment of the Spate’s claim for taxes and the power to sell for such taxes forever extinguished. It was a payment of the tax, because the recipts of the taxes was the extent of Comptroller-General’s authority, and “a payment of the tax, whether by the owner or any one else, will void the sale.” 73 Penn. Rep. 467, and the other above cited. * * * We could find no evidence that the Comptroller-General had any interest in She transactions except his charge for costa. But we are pained to have to report that Dr. A. J. Bell, a clerk iu the wild land of fice, and who was the active, manag ing party to the transfer of fl. fas. who principally kept the records and c inducted the correspondence on this subject, engaged in the speculation. To what extent, we are not fully sat isfied. The testimony connects him wi'h many lots up to a certain point: lie then disappears. In one instance he used a ficticious name on the records as trrusferee, and thereby reserved the lots char ged to this fictitious person for his own benefit. The evidence discloses all the minutiae o f this transaction. * * * * * The proceeds of those sales had under those C. f«s. have, iu a mitjoii- ty of cases, been absorbed, wholly or in part, by the transferees, either by charging (against the Lund aris ing from the sale, excessive costs, which they did not pay, or by pre tending to he the true owners of the land, inducing the sheriffs to turn the excess over to them as such true owners, and in many instances by combining both ways. The sheriffs permitted them to do this under a circular issued by the Comptroller- General to them, dated November 1, 1377, instructing them as follows : “In all wild land sales, the excess of money, over and above taxes and all costs, must be paid over to the owner of the land, if to be found at the time of the sale, or if the owner is not to not to he found, then said sum of money, in excess of taxes and costs, .must be sent to me to be de- posited in the treasury to the credit of the owner as a trust fund.” Taking advantage of tiie3e instruc tions-of the Comptroller-General to sheriffs, in some instances trans ferees wonld gather up any kind of titles, however fictitious or fraudu lent,-made for the express purpose, and ipresent them to the sheriffs, and under them claim the entire proceeds ot the sale. They yet hold these moneys—in some cases large amounts. As an instance of this, we refer to the evi dence showing that the transferees in Dodge county retained an excess of ♦9,142,92, and that Dr. Lott has retained the entire proceeds of the sales in twelve connties. Bat tiie most common wav of de frauding t he true owners and the State, t as been in excessive charges for costs, Iu almost every instance the trasferees have made contracts with newspapers to do the advertis ing by the square, thus getting if done for abont tec cents a lot, and when they settled with the sheriff or the State, they deducted from the proceeds of the sale from 32 50 to 5,00 a lot, generally 34,00 being charged. This is, of course, illegal. There is no law fixing the printer’s fee. Whatever is actually and in good faith paid for advertising a levy can be taxed as costs against the defen dant in Ii. fas., in these cases, against the fund arising from the sale of the land, and no more. They alvo made contracts with sheriffs to have the sales made for a small proportion of the usual costs lor sheriffs’ levies and sales, and they charged in th-ir settlements full sheriffs' costs, and iu many instances more tliau Sheriffs’ costs. Sometimes they’wonld charge 00 for a levy of one of these fi. fas., when the uct of 1876 expressly fixes it at thirty five cents. In many in stances they would charge 33,50 for making a deed, they being the pur chasers, and seventy-five cents for re cording the deed. ♦ » * * * It has been imp issible for us to Mr-rtain the amount of this excess in the bauds of the various trans ferees. It wonld require the com mittee many months to ascertain it. It wonld require a calculation as to each aud every lot of land. This is all in a sea of chaos, and a world of oouftaon. It eon never be straightened. While we are on this subject, we resjiectfufly call jour attention to that circular of the Comptroller-General to toeriffs,above alluded to. The act of 1874, section 8, expressly charges the Comptroller- General with the doty of deciding who those true owners aie. It is an official duty cast upon bim that he cannot delegate to sberifs. Much of the confusbn that has grown out of these wildland matters is directly attributable to this citcu- lar. We find a great mary frauds of varioas species ar.d kimls practiced by these transferees asd others - at sales. In many instances th^ bailed and beared the market by nany unlaw ful means and devices to> numerous to mention in this repot The evi dence discloses many ol them. We are satisfied that a volime of evi dence of such frauds codd be gath ered. We were competed to pass over a great many evidences of this Kind, because we had uoi the time to inoludo them in onr iiiesrig.itions. We only inclnde fair ' samples of thsm. To nnearth them all would be au endless task; for, is one of the heaviest transferees hinseif ex pressed it while testifying hl'ore onr committee, “The land snaAs went every man for himself and he devil take the hindmost” There is no record of salesinquile a number of connties in the Comp troller-General’s office, the (sansfer- ees and sheriffs having made no re turns or settlements with thalofficer. In some counties sales wee made by the sheriffs for the transfers > w.tli- out first making levies, andwithout even having the fifas in hant on the day of sale. The Comptroller-General has al lowed these excessive costs b be de ducted by the transferees, i<*twith- standing he was informed if their proceedings. He replied to coaplaints made to him on the subj'-etthat he had nothing to do with it. We think tne primary «anc of all these frauds aud troubles is ittnbu- table directly to the mi-apprinension of the law, for had the law beu fully administered iu its letter anvspirit, the frauds could uot have bed com mitted, and there would hac been no confusion. And if, penhanoe, the courts or the Legisiatureshould bold valid or ratify these sje8, we see no reason why the Comproller- General would not be liablflto the State on his official bond Tor al ihese moneys in the hands of the trans ferees or others. The State baunot condescend to litigate with these hundreds of people nowholdig this mouey, but should, in the et-ut al luded to, look directly to theotlicer whose mistakes diverted it fbm the treasury, leaving him to loot to the people he dealt with for his ndem- nity. We are called on by this -.solu tion to reportconc:rmng the honeys arising from the wild laud tiiiisac- tions. We, therefore, called in the Comptroller General for a sWoment of amounts received from thisiource and he reported that he had revived from September 1, 1877 tojinel, 1879, 343,713,14; and that je paid out 333,029,08, leaving imhishands ♦ 10,176,00. We find tliathe hjts.paid out to these transferees *£,17*26 in redemption of fi. fas. he had pre- vionsly sold and transferred Mthem without any warrant from thi Gov ernor, but on his own responsbility, and yet holds in his own hams this balance of 310,684,00 to pay at the same way. We think this is ai open violation of the Constitutioi and laws of this State. This mory be came public money the morrnt it r sed into his hands and eouL only paid out as the law direcs, i. c. upon the warrant of the Goernor countersigned by the Comptoller- General and paid by the Treturer, and then only on appropriates first made for that purpose by the Legis lature. Art, 3, par. XI, Coustiution 1877, Code 76. If the law gave the Comproller- General authority to maki these trades with the transferees as he contends, it certainly giveB lun none to cancel them with the pnblianoney. This matter ought to be lookd close ly iuto, as there is no ebeckon the actions of the Coniptroltr-teneral, and is rendered doubly iupoitant by the fact that no cash-bool is kept in the wild land office—nothiig but stubs of receipts. In view of the wholeiale lauds committed in these transiciiois we respectfully recommend tha the Legislature do pass an act decariug all these sales had under transerred fi. fas. null aud void, as someif the courts have already decide^ and another to withdraw ail protetion of any statute of limitation, c law oi prescription from all suchtitles, or others founded on them, o ema nating from them;ind thii com mittee beg leave to continue their organizal ion for the purpose i pre paring these bills and reportin them as soon as possible. D. A. Bussell, On the part of the Seiate. Louis Strickland, John - C. Maun>, Parkis D. 1>hs, On the part of the Louse. Captain Eads, the scimtfic en gineer has appeared in a liter to the New York Tribune win a novel plan for doing away with lie projio- sed ship canal acroes the ithmus of Darien. His plan is to fiek up a ship at Aspinwati aad has it lodily across the isthmus to Pacama. lie proposes a five-track railway with road-bed forty feet wide aid ai im mense truck whith one tbotsand wheels. He will run his trtek un der the loaded vessel as sh; les in the dock, and secure the sane here unto. Then, with a dozen Lrgp siz ed locomotives he will walk iff with it like a thing of beauty at to rate of fifteeu miles an hour, thmijh the average speed would not, Mr.Eads thinks, be more than eight miesan hour. The e-timaced cost o (his ship railway is only 350,000,00, or about one-third of the cost of ican- al across the Isthmus. Mr.Ehds thinks that he could complet his railway in five years, and thus give this generation the benefit (his scheme if he could commence wra- StetoOem. Eev. W. A. Florence, formerly of Oxford, died near Social Circle on Sunday night. The hunt for confederate gold in Wilkes county has somewhat cooled its energy. The dark corner of Elbert county makes the fineet brand of rye whis ky known to the trade. Governor Colquitt will deliver an address at the Martin Institute, Jef ferson, on Sunday, 6th inst. The Valdosta Times says that a newfangled worm has appeared on the (arms in Lowndes county, and is doing great damage So corn crops. It appears that when the corn is about tasseling out this little green worm with a 8fcok head pores into the stalk at the ground and eats out pith, and the first slight wind breakes the corn down. The Colnmbus Enquirer says they have one cotton mill that supports 5,000 people. The Madisonian thinks Col. Uar deman wonld make a good Gover nor. The Marietta Journal reports more bnilding going on in Cobb county this year than at any time since the war. The report is that Triplett, of the Thomasvillv Times has returned, ry lonely, from Tennessee, and says that Thomasville for the present, at least, will have no more Tripletts.— Macon Weekly. Prof. Henry Schoeller, of Dalton, has recently composed a beautiful waltz song, entitled “Gaily I Wau- der,” and presented it to Mrs. P. H, Snook, of Alanta in manuscript farm. The Cuthbert Appeal, alUuding to the unprecedented drouth iu that section, says that not three inches of rain hare fallen in that section since the first day of May. The editor of the Athens Watch man was unceremoniously hutted an- to the canal by an enraged bull, and the depraved Chronicle S3ys that that independent organ, through its edi tor, was at last obliged to take water, and feels awfully good over it Mrs. Mobley, wife of Cononel J. M. Mobley, of IIa r n« county, died on Tnursday night. Father Ryan, the gifted poet priest of the South, is preparing a volume of poems for the press. He now re sides at Mobile, Ala. The dog law, as it is called, is a measure of pnblic necessity, whicli should no longer be postponed in in deference to the opinions of the owners of the thousands of worth less dogs by which the coumry is in fcated, and whose depredations are destructive to sheep husbandry, one of the most profitable and important industries of the country. If the leg islature would encourage woolgrow ing iu Georgia it must discourage the unlimited increase of dogs. To do this it should lose no time in de vising some proper measure impos ing a tax on dogs and making the owners of sheep killing dogs respon sible for their depredations on sheep herds.—Savannah News. General tions at once. Reports from the Western cities are of unprecedentedly hot weather. The New Orleans Democrat says the health of that city this year is better than it has been I or a decade and a half, and so far the mortality from febrile complaints has been marvelously small. Gen. G. W. C. Lee, upon whom the mantle of his father, Gen. Robert E. Lee, as President of Washington and Lee University, fell, has sent in his resignation as President of the University. The adjournment of congress lifts a heavy weight from the long de pressed spiri s of Mr. Hayes. A man in the possession of stolen goods can never feel quite at his ease while the agents of the owners are around in iarge numbers.— Washing ton Post. The United States Marshals left without any pay for the next five months at least. It remains to be seen whether the President will borrow the money, as he hinted in one of his vetoes that he wonld, to tideover the interval The session ends with the juror’s test oath law repealed, use of troops at the polls prohibited and the Fed eral deputy marshals and supervi sors without an occupation. The Democrats have thus attained all, in substance, that they asked for at the commencement of the fight.— Wash ington Post. A pressing necessity of the time is an “Association for the Suppression of Useless Knowledge,” which shall elimiuato from our conrses of study more than half the branches which are now taught iu schools. From Europe comes the cable news of a new and wholly unprecedented visitation, in the shape of a ‘ butter fly plague” in France. Vast swarms of butterflies are covering southern and ceutral France. They first ap peared in Italy, and recently the Marseilles coast was covered with them. A cloud of white and yellow butterflies passed, the same day, near Mnntelima station, their passage occupying fifty minutes, while ttng- glers followed for another half hour. The invasion has extended ae for northward as Alsace. Judge Hillyer’s exposition oflaw in the Hill murder case is atracting a great deal of attention all over the country, and we have not yet seen its soundness called in question. In deed, the consequences of a different ruling have b- rn each disastrous fruits on pnblic morels and^ the safe ty of human life in many of the states, that, men begin to see that a return to principles is the only alter native to a system of vendettas in which life shall depend on the art and practice of se’f-delense, and the whim of anybody who conceives himself affronted or injured. The very foundation principle of citizen ship is a waiver of the natural right of self-vindication in favor of the law and the judgment of his peers. If this waiver is not made and en forced, courts and juries are a mere sham—a falsi pretence. We should return to the lawof the savage—or ratter to natural law, for even the savage is controlled in inflicting his private vengeance by the usages and traditions of the tribe. Even he dare not violate them, however mnch the white man may throw scorn on courts and jnries. aud unde: tike lo be his own law, judge, jury aud ex ecutioner. It is trne that when a man’s rights are snudenly and vio lently assailed, and there is no time Ter a resort to legal remedies, the law and public opinion justify a man in substituting natural remedies. But this right of substitution ceases at the moment of the recurrence of op portunity for legal enquiry and re dress. When any man has this, and yet assumes to judge his own case, pass sentence, take his shot-gun and play executioner, although he may have had grave affront or injury, yet he affronts the dignity of the state still more, and makes himself an out law by publicly casting off and scorn ing the restraints and the protection of law. Should everybody or even the half of everybody, follow his evil example, then there is no law bnt a man’s ability to defend himself, and no government which is any thing else but a grievance and an imposture; for it fails to protect, while it charges a round price in taxes for the sham pretense of pro tection. A government, therefore, is fatally wanting in self-respect as well as in duty to the people which does not deal with this pistoling and shot- gnn law as it deserves—deal with it as one of the gravest ot crimes—in its direct tendency subverting all law and bringing it into contempt.—Ma con Telegraph. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Photographic lotice. T XJf'f* ^* re lK ? t at Cedartown »hont the to make photographs «»d FERROTYPES of all eises and style*. Haring secured Mr. T, J. Borers, of A thou, a be first class ** °P eralor * our work shall IS Card Photographs for $2.00; 6 for $1.50. 1. 3. or ♦* Ferrotypes for 50 cents. A fine Pictnre in an SxlO Rustic, Ova! or Squn W y° a lf lmine comply, for $1.25, $1,50. and $2. Old Pictures Copied at same prices. iMoworf tl>C ,owest P ricca cver ma dc for first- Keferences: Onr patrons at Rock mart. July », 1870. g. G. TENNENT. Or.DIXART, l _ u <iui; it’ffil, 1870. ) A™*!* p * i “. Karri. C. Lathim, and J?LT. Ur * €r ’ T 1 **** 8 Latham, haring applied *Lf? U ^ h 7” of lhl ’ court ' June HU, 18T9. of Ule wHI of V. C. Latham, to which ha dalma to he an executor, be in- so named iu Mid wul, you and each ol roe are required and cited to be and appear at the Ordinary’s office in the Conrt Mcnae of Haralson county, at the regular August Tenn, 1870, of the Conrt of Ordinary Tor said coun- **»• P n, bato of said will. This July 7th, 1878. b. M. DATEN PORT, Ordinary. AGENTS WANTED. The Vsaal 365 Machine Red need to $25. Game aud Iuectiferoaj Birds. The wholesale destruction of game and iusectiferous birds by loafing negroes, wbo are too lazy to work, is becoming a seiiuos evil which will soon result, unless some efficient check is put to it by a|vpropriate legislation, in the extermination of some varieties of our most listful game, and ill the desruction of sev eral classess of birds which are most useful in the destruction of insects njiirions to vegetation. TL-e increase of such iusec.s within the last decade is a notorious fact, and unless some means are adopted to prevent the wanton destruction of birds, the insects will be masters of the situa tion in another decade. It is only necessary to suggest these thoughts to the General Assembly, composed as it is. of intelligent, pa’riolic men who appreciate and are- disposed to supply the wants of the people so far as this latter can be done l>y in telligent legislation.—Atlanta Dis patch. A Celebrated Celebration. <t& ■ aim on. p-ii WILLSON'S OMOLSTEi (Norwegian) Cod Liver Oi Imasilatsly ActssU Dstay and Bauds l> th« ly«Ur- WILLSON’S CiBSOUTEP (Norwegian) Cod Liver Oi! Is rsuinnlby tha W.skxl IMihIi. I. PrM frstn CspIfO.I T».t U Readily Dig..tsd. Insr g.w *»•» i. WILLSON’S C18BOUTU (Norwegian) Cod Liver Oil G«m OiwptlH, lersfhla. IwacUtisa, fiwgfca, fiM* Cimi ii— and la ‘ afcaafta willson s amolaved (Norwegian)Cod Liver Oil is gold only Inlirgq wadifbflbtlkn. VOlooc i spoiled with • douhlo Bomwabortho w.--xi “ Ca.obolatxi> ” in nr Wing fh»m yoor Ongji k and insist on having the ri ht kind. 8ead for Circulars to tbs p£opru-tt«a, GUEMP MANUFACTURING CO.. u PARK PLACE. NEW YOK L. BUCHAN’S CARBOLIC BALM OINTMENT . , _ . Bett Silva 1* lit WotIA Trada lark. Quick cud Startling Ceres. It Heels Without e Seer. Allays Pole A Stops Blssdtr Soothes e Berm or Seeld. Heels e Get Like Hegis. I>rews Poise* out of e^Pau * BUCHANS’ CARBOLIC. BALM OINTMEr CONTAINS NO GREASE Al WASHES OFF WITHOUT fcO* It ads Inttanfy awl Itice J&vjic. Foe Sait Ekoae, Sore Three*, tlr i, Suras, Bcclds. CsU, Wunadu. Pi 4ote Kje, Psisonsai Miags ea i B» »•. Sarwa Itch, Chappsd Hash. Scr «s- loes doreo, and any and ovary oth t jrurp -r > fir vhich a Salve or ointment esi bo Ssotl. ij R . jhwe’u Cerhelie Bely OisftBoat • • >nly proparattou that-ran always hefUie.i u-nu. iaabesnttfnl Jelly-e >: ore 1 article, sold In f has jottlea with tha sbovo tr»le-msrk.” W.:l out vhich none Is genuine. Sotoli shat-yout rist gives you Ijccbav's, as above SsdWbed. Hr- m ars seat froo on application w tha MtsmSte- "'"gufmp manufacturing no.. as PARK PLACE, XLW Mt*. Family Sewing Machine THE CHEAPEST AND BEST IN THE WOULD. Too Long in Use to Doubt its Superior Merits. It makes the shuttle, donbie-thread, lock-stitch, (the same on both sides of the work*, which re ceived the hiohest awabd at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. Pa,, 1876, Complete with a i.auger assortment of FUTURES than any other machine, and Reduced to only $25. Has Horisontal Shuttle Motion, with Strong Frame, Self-adjusting Shuttle, with New Automatic Ten sion (novel featarc). Extra long, large-sized Shuttle, easily removed. Extra large sized Bobbins, holding lo0 yards of thread, doing away with the frequent rewinding of bobbins. Tne Bhutile Tension la directly upon the thread, and not upon the Bobbin, as in othar machines, sad is invariable, whether the Bobbin is full or nearly empty. The very Perfection of Stitch and Tession. The upper and lower threads are drawn together and .ocked simultaneously in the centre of the goods, forming] the stitch (precisely alike oa both sidet* of any thickness of work, from light gauze to leather. Four motion under feed—the only reliable feed known ; feeds each side af the ncetrle. New Self-adjusting “Take up." ‘No tangling of thread." or dropping stitches. Great widtlfof Arm, and large capacity for work. Adapted te the wants ot family sewing, without restriction. Simplicity and Perfection of Mechnniftn. Interchangeable working parts. Manufactured of floe polit-ued steel. Positive Motion, guaranteeing Certainty ol Work. More readily comprehended than any other ma chine. An easy working Treadle. No ezertiou needed, 1 Is always ready, and never out of order. It has thoroughly established its reputation ! throughout the world as the only Reliable Family j pl~M„t machine to op^to, re- j AglWSfcfo qnire* the least care, produces every variety of | ^ i tl ,i work, uoil will last until the n*x» century begins. Ntm.aminlli'u«itp:ain:s*riM->irfi<vn. siM v. ,««rc. Strong, Simple, Rapid, and Efficient. i IP yvra. ft coo5e*heStood.»; • *.i. - * Udc it ouce, and you will asc%o other. The I /*•. '*5re®f '*. money cheerfully refunded If Jt wilirfiot outwork I 'a*ol »oni£ ’ " ~ * *"* and outlast any mitethne at double the price. “rn-i «:-d K v *. ror.Frw‘ O’-a c*^ * ■ 7. Agents uell them faster tb;in any other in conac- j t iUKEsLPALWATSS, SftSLlTZl’i.rfiii* ,kL qut-nct of their being "the Beat at the Louretd — - ■ . — — Price.” Call at the office of this paper and ex- j nnune one, or order from u« through the publishers of this 1 paper. Machines sent for examination before paj- tuent of bill. Warranted 5 years. Kept in order free of charge. Money refunded at once, if not i BLACK AS THE RAVE ITS WIN 35 IS KISSER'S Kavti hdeliUo iut. Heady: Perfect Black Ns fust or trouble! It uefi without pre;«raflon J *>ld by all drugR’iota aca -L lo»- Ga-mp Kllg. * ePxac* « *. perfect. Inducements offered to Clergymen, Teach ers, Storekeepers, etc., to act as agent-. Horse i ' liberal terms, circulars, etc. Address. ‘ FAMILY” SEWING MACHINE CO.. julyl0.12t 755 Broadway, New Terk. NEW Livery and Sale Stable, 6’or. Main £ Prior tstreet. tvetOA Afterulf.no ramrlyti so r-riara xm j rareConmmplIoa »« ptsrv 5nrwi ^ta* | Cod LKrrOII, Csrbolatnl Ky Wlllsmb -K rib u< p Bfrtf."»nr. limit. NBptiv^pt’.ieaui«rrsomcidy i'* r :• lr» linn sCarKla c«l ‘ .*-1 Liter oil a £»«■ *™i and tcauy led vth' 'ill dlat orvparat oa.; are re’Ute i by the .. '1 r •. I im- trcdia’.riy ' fl'ers intc* ihe t irrnlat«?:.. r* • • ap> The movement in the direction of suitable commemoration of the completion of a quarter of a century of existence of ihe Republican party lias given rise to some controversy as to the genesis oi Uae party.—Bos ton Advertiser. A bastard, that knows not its father, nor the town or even the State where it was born, need not greatly concern itself about tbe celebration of its 25th birthday. Tbe Demo cratic party has existed us long as the century, and never stole the Presidency; never robbed a crushed people through carpet-baggers; never produced a Grant administration whose appointees proved defaulters to the tune of five millions six hun dred thousand dollars; nevei had a Secretary of the Navy, who plunder ed the Treasury outright to the ex tent of eighty millions, like “Secor” Robeson, nor two Secretaries of War, or any Senator, who had to be re moved on account of official corrup tion. All the same let the Republi cans celebrate; they have done con siderable, as the fellow did who not only c adled a field of rye, but stole the farmer’s horse and got off with it. If only he won’t come back and 81,6 steal the whole farm, the people will be willing to join the celebration.— Hartford Times. The Memphis grand jury paid au unexpected visit to the county work, house and found a horrible condition of affairs in existence. Hitherto the officials had notice of their coming and everything was in excellent order —until the visitors left Other grand juries m other States night profitably borrow a leaf from the Memphis book. The full Senate has seventy-six members, yet only forty-live votes were oast on the Jndicial Expenses bill—six maro than a bare quorum. A registration law is, in our opin ion, the most important of the mea sures mentioned. Such a law has been found necessary in nearly all of the northern states where there is a heavy floating vote, and certainly no section of the country has as ma ny floaters now as the south, and the best interests of the country demand such rigid regulations as will pro tect every man in his right to vote once, and society from the abase of his privilege. Experience has fully demonstrated that tbe punishment inflicted on conviction for voting more than once does not meet the necessities of tbe cate.—QainsoiT* Argus. ,.Cly t lt.il T> -pe tlr* o? tir- oil au ;'ain aud l>n i itlr- yr- a fsrb« Is* i rsn-i’J, Li i-ity by the r»J IfbgM CEDARTOWN. GA. W. F TREADAWAY, Proprietor. New Vehicles, Good Stock aud low prices. Give me a trial. jan.l.TVly W. P. LARA MORE. J. T. FEARS i L<aramo rc db Co. WHOLESALE Commission LTercliaiits IN PROVISIONS, PRODUCE, TOBACCO CIGARS, etc., Masonic Temple- ROME, • - - - GA m27-3m prepira* u Wllloun never wlrce-l r at tbe price ot tha orilmary Oils. It r.tr*H i'on tumpti'in. A*re'Ml», Asrhrii. 2ren rliitis. Emaciation. Couch . Colds. *!• nadsll lun* st»;l ron«*Jtnti< a-.! r..tr.yl3 As a Ul.Kxi Pur'aw the C.rK4at-*i • t. ; *»nask- ablr ctbri.-n*.. Xt.i u-« la Srrr>f lous A.Te-tlens, Kli •nintJti.-TO. Rickets. Ac . it strong!▼ r jei.xuat^ud- v»l. I f pari ying p«»wcr isw n icrfut aa CoascBtf. tio •—<ki*«3«iin6.R - »itfrpqDc itlr «loes, u;-- u Scref n ous t:;inL It arts ttpoa tY rational tberTy r.f Immt -.e*.t ANt*vn*«t Dlcat *H:tr rr BCXLJMty? thj enabling it tv tar • w oT tbe disease. S».ld only in -»elgc-nhape-1 bottle*. * T:I.*r“1i spelled with a d..nblf • L." liwnembfr f: j word •• Corbola*ed ” in or J-nag from your dm gg **, na - 1 iuwiwt ap o having the right kind. LUMPKIN’S OLD RELIABLE LIVERY, FEED ana SALE STABLE. Cedartown, Ora. MILLER A. WRIGHT, Proprietor. Keeps con-tantly on hand to hire. Good Horses id excellent vel r Dioveru and Buggies always c Real Estate Agency. Agency is needed in this community, ha? established one for the purpose of buying selling and renting, for others. Real Estate such as farms town property, mines and mining interests. He will take property to sell or rent and make no charge for adverasiag or tronble unloss a sale or rental is accomplished. Any one ha .lag property for sale or rent will mgke money by contra I ting me. Millar A. Wright. *29- Cedartowa. Polk county. Ga. 3 1 Nome Kailpoad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. On ud SUNDAY. JUNE 9J1K8, the mine wlU ran on the Rome Railroad ae foljowe: EVENING TRAIN. daily at to Rome at SATURDAY ACCOMMODATION. Leave Rome (Saturday only) at 5 00P11 Retnrn to Rome at « no p v S.10A M 1S.30PH c-i p w % F C <! V H 0 © e+ © hi Webb’s Eestauiant, * Bakery, Lager fleer, k Ale, Neatly Opporitc the Ne« Maronie Temple, Ao. 87, Broad Street, Itmne, Ga MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters, Birds, Game, Fish, Ac in their Season, and Alwsva fbk Best the Market Affords Furnished. Also Lodgings Furnished Streii-cis. perhSd 25CUCaCb: LtH, * k ’K* &«»* V 1 neaa - march 27 tf RIUS HALL. TONSITORIAL PARLORS. ‘ OM ** A T*****WBBasFe o-x, - SICS HSU..