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THE FREE PRESS.
An Independent Democratic Journal.
C. H. C. WILLINGHAM, Emtok.
The Free Press is an Independent Democrat
ic Journal, opposed to all Kings, Cliques and
(. ombinations, of whatever sort, organized to de
feat the will of the people in all public matters
or interests in whatever shape presented.
( artersTille, Georgia, December 19, 1878.
Special Notice.
Subscribers receiving their papers with a cross
mark opposite their names will understand that
they owe for it and that we want the money at
once. We cannot and will not continue the pa
per to those who do not pay up.
THE SECRET IXVESTIGA TION.
We have on our desk the Atlanta Con
stitution, of December 11th. The report
er, speaking by authority of one of the
committee investigating the Northeast
ern bonds, says “the report will be unani
mous, and the legislature will be unani
mous; that Colquitt is all right; that
Murphy is all right; Hill is the only
man in doubt, but he will also be satis
fied; everything is lovely and the gates
ajar.” Didn’t we tell you so? Without
seeing the report, without a single item
rthe testimony to influence us, we said
it was too thin. The people of Georgia
are not fools. If it is all blameless and
lovely, why this great ado about nothing ?
Why all this expense and secret investi
gation ?
You will understand that we are not
the champion of Mr. Hill, nor are we
the prosecutor of Governor Colquitt or
Mr. Murphy. We think there is blame
Pi each and all. In the first place, Mr.
Hill should have said nothing about it
if he did not intend to pursue the inves
tigation to the end. When he blamed
Mi Murphy to Gov. Colquitt, and the
Governor refused to indict Murphy or
dismiss him from the State house, he
should have explained that street alterca
lion, and made the matter plain in the
public prints over his own name, and
with a full statement of his reasons.
Whether a member of Congress is to be
allowed to practice law and take fees in
such matters, we are not prepared to de
cide. We say there ought to be a law to
prevent any member of Congress and of
the State legislature from practicing
their profession while they fill these seats
in an official capacity. Unless they can
withdraw from their profession, while
they sit in judgment on the interests of
the whole country, we say let them re
tire and give place to more liberal-mind
ed public servants.
We understand that Mr. Hill did argue
the case before the court, and the court
rendered its judgment —that it had no
jurisdiction n the case—that it pertained
entirely to the legislature and the gover
nor. This promised fee to Mr. Hill was
in reference to the courts, which he was
to receive whenever the governor placed
his endorsement on the bonds. Now,
Mr. Murphy gotthe fee. He says he got
it; the committee admits he got it. Now
what court did he practice before ? “He
o-ot it for n consideration that satisfied
the other parties.” We quote the words
of this reporter, speaking for the com
mittee.
Remember Murphy got it for a con
sideration.” We are obliged to under
stand that all the “other parties” want
ed was the “governor’s endorsement.’
Murphy procured that endorsement, or
he deceived the “other parties.” Evi
dently, he was paid for that work. Now',
in the name of justice, honor and digni
ty, is the official action of the governor
of Georgia to be hawked about as a mar
ketable commodity? Is the legislature
to endorse such a precedent ? Suppose
the governor did not share in the eight
thousand dollars grab, is he to allow the
State house clerks to anticipate his offi
cial action and trade on it for money ?
Great God! what does it mean?
Where will it end? Literally, the ser
vant is before the master. What securi
ty have the people of Georgia that their
money is safe anywhere, when the gov
ernor can sign away $20,000 again t the
advice of previous legislatures, against
the advice of legal minds who hold the
position of attorney generals, and who
signs them in obedience to a subordinate
clerk in the treasury department, who
sells his information to interested par
ties for a moneyed consideration ? Where
is the system to end ?
We understand that Mr. Hugh A. Har
alson, Gen. Gordon’s brother-in-law,
makes the bold statement that Mr. Mur
phy paid Gov. Colquitt one thousand
dollars for tw'O positions in the State Capi
tol, and that he has the proof. So it
seems that the governor is a trading
character. If Murphy had bought two
positions, he had a precedent to sell Gov.
Colquitt’s official action. He had full
authority. Hugh Haralson published an
open card, which our readers will re
member, that Govei nor Colquitt expect
ed him to do things to obtain an office
that he could not do. Was it to buy the
coveted position ? Why was not Haral
son called on to testify ? His charges are
no secret in Georgia or elsewhere. Did
Bullock ever do more ? Did he ever do
so much? Patriots, Georgians, rebuke
this wrong! The legislature may pro
nounce Gov. Colquitt all right, but is this
right in any sense of the word ? Because
shere is none of the eight thousand dol
lars (which Murphy got, and the com
mittee admits he got) found in the gover
nor’s hands, shall the legislature endorse
this system —this outrage upon the high
position of governor ? Bullock and the
republicans of Georgia arc being vindi
cated very fast. They did what they
could for personal advantage, and for the
help of their friends, (among whom are
some so-called democrats, who were
•warmed at the fire of their generous
abundance, and who turned, serpent
like, upon their benefactors when their
day of help was past); but history does
not chronicle a more deliberate raid upon
the treasury of the State for the private
advantage of a clerk in the office of the
treasurer.
yjHoti’fc cbmplain hereafter if great swin
dles develop themselves. Mink at the
wild land frauds w hen high officials buy
in the market with a view to private ad
vantage; endorse all you see; commen
all you hear; pay your taxes meekly,
humbly ; be thankful for permission to
stay at home; bow down in humble de
ference to “the powers that be;” when
a dish of “whitewash” is offered, swal
low it instantly: “agree with thine ad
versary quickly, lest he hail to the offi
cer,” and you find yourself stranded in
poverty and ruin.
“All is lovely and the gates are ajar.”
Before Belshazzar saw the handwriting
on the wall, “all was lovely ’ in the ban
queting house. Alas! alas! the Chal
deans have carried oft the golden
of our honor and State pride! M e are so
poor there are none to call us great or
good. The glory has departed.
A TEXAS VERDICT.
In the result of the Northeastern bond
question it may be said “nobody’s hurt”
on either “side.” The governor came
out all right. Mr. Hill wasn’t touched
and West Murphy passed unscathed. It
eft all “lovely and the gates ajar” for all
parties interested. The devil would have
come out the same way if he had been
interested and was a good “organized
Democrat and belonged to a ring of the
Democratic family. The result was cu
rious, to be sure. We don’t know that
the committee could arrive at the “true
inwardness” of the whole transaction
any better than they did. The two re_
ports were similar to the verdict of a lex
as jury. Both said, “You are innocent,
but don’t do it any more.”
But the people have their own idea of
things* They know “there is something
rotten in Denmark.” If it was right to
sign them why were the parties interested
required to pay eight thousand dollars
before they were signed. In the name
of common honesty, how' w r as it necessary
that the eight thousand dollars had to be
paid at all w hen it was the duty of the
Governor to sign them anyhow ? What
is the matter with Democratic Georgia,
with her eighty thousand Democratic
majority, with the 'Texas banner to boot,
w hen eight thousand dollars have to be
paid out for even-handed justice before
the Governor performs his duty ? These
are the questions the people naturally
ask.
Well the committee made two reports
according to the evidence, and both w'ere
like the Texas verdict. How* could the
committee do otherwise when the bsst
and truest evidence, perhaps, were in
terested parties in the eight thousand
dollar grab ? Neither report of the com
mittee denied the fact that somebody un
justly received eight thousand dollars be
fore the Governor performed his sworn
duty—that is, before the bonds were
signed. Gentlemen of the jury ! People
of Georgia! There is something very
rotten in this Georgia Denmark of our’s.
That eight thousand dollar grab is still
unexplained and the devil will be to pay
sometime or other.
If we had a free and independent press
in Atlanta the matter would be unearthed.
We are glad the Legislature refused to
pass upon the matter until July next.
That w r as eminently right. They were
incapable of taking correct action with
out reading the evidence and there had
been no time toj read the volmdous docu
ment just the day before adjournment.
Time is necessary to review the testimo
ny and to act justly in the matter.
Had we been a member of the Legisla
ture we should have resigned had action
on the reports of the committee been
forced last w eek. We pplaud the course of
Mr. T. W, Milner, one of the represen
tatives from Bartow, w'ould have taken in
such an event. He declared to his friends
he would resign if no time had been al
lowed to read andstudy the evidence in
the matter, It was right that action
should be defered. There is guilt some
where, not withstanding the character of
the two representatives, both bearing the
impression (?) significance of the 'Texas
verdict.
WALL STREET A GA IXST DR. FELTOX.
We reprint elsewhere the text of the
bill introduced by our representative last
Monday* It proposes to make National
banks, (as institutions chartered by the
government) stand by their contracts.
With resumption just before us, the ef
fort is now being made to resume with
gold coin. The banks intend to quadru
ple their profits and to diminish the re
sources of the stifferiog poor of this tax
ridden land. Dr. Felton introduced a
bill to make them take standard silver
coin of 412% grains as the legal tender
of the government, and to revoke their
charters if they refuse to do it.
Now you will see a howl go up from
Wall street. No wonder Wall street de
sired his defeat. No wonder Jay Gould
sent his emmissaries into the Seventh dis
trict. Dr. Felton is the breakwater be
tween the injustice of the bloated money
power, and the struggling labor of Amer
ica.
Last winter the New York Tribune
called Dr. Felton the “blue-ribhon idiot”
of the House, when he electrified the na
tson with his great speech on Finance.
Now, the New York Herald derides and
abuses him, because of the introduction
of this bill.
All right, Doctor! Go ahead! Stand
by us and we will stand by you! Stand
by the people who watch this raid upon
the Treasury of the nation with fear and
trembling!
Because Tilden has a long purse, we
are to be traded off in 1880. to obtain the
“supremacy in the government” Gen.
Gordon says, we must not hurt Tilden’s
feelings.” Tilden is hard money to the
core. He paid out hard money to con
trol the other election according to “ci
pher dispatches.” Now we must be
traded off to the money power. We must
be bankrupted as a nation. We must
see our little patrimony melt away, and
become “hewers of wood and drawers of
water” for the Wall street aristocracy,
which is based on money and money
alone.
Thanks to your faithful representation
for this effort to shield us from this “de
struction that Vaffieth at noneday.” Thte
abuse the New York Herald heaps upon
von, is only the malignant hate of a
thwarted conspirator. They did their
best to slay you this fall. Their abuse
is the highest eneomium they can place
upon your integrity and ability. Keep
the silver afloat, for w ithout it we are
financially blotted out in the United
States and the poor man becomes the
slave of his masters in Wall street.
TIipSE KEW CLOTHES.
Uncle Pete Lawshe, of the Gainesville
Southron, wants to borrow our new
clothes every other Sunday. We neiih
lend or borrow' —clothes, especiallj these.
Listen to Uncle Pete, that vile indepen
dent democtat, that ugly “Minnesota
yankee,” who is brave enough to stand
by the right and support Emory Speer.
This is what he says:
Charley Willingham, of the Cartersville Free
Press, is blowing about anew suit of clothe*
the Felton ladies of his town have given him.
You old wretch what right have you to good
clothes? You’re nothing but an editor, and didn’t
spend more than four months on the watch-tow
er of the people’s rights, working like a criminal
iu the pump-pool of a prison, why arc you en
titled to new clothes? Charley, don’t you say
clothes again, to me, unless you will agree to
express them to me every other Sunday, so that
I can put on airs over them half the time. ‘‘Do
you mind that now.”
Now, what we have to say to Uncle
Pete is, that the Speer ladies of Gaines
ville will have to present him with a new'
suit of clothes, as we know no indepen
dent, honest democratic editor is able to
buy a suit of clothes these hard times.
An ineurruptible paper don’t make money
these times. Uncle Pete, whisper to the
Gainesvill ladies that The Free Press
says that they must buy you a nice suit of
clothes. Let nobody hear you tell them so.
A correspondent w rites to us over the
signature of “Georgian,” that “General
Gordon is published as going to Boston to
make a speech for charity,” and adds,
“Will you be kind enough to ask the
General to go, also, to Georgia and speak
for the poor convicts on his farms in
Taylor county. Let charity begin at
home.” Well, well, we don’t know
what to say except that “the General”
would rather come up to the Seventh and
beat “old Felton.” If “the General’s”
charity speech in Boston don’t pan out
better than his speeches in the Seventh,
we are sorry for the objects of charity in
Boston.
The latest new r s from Gov. Hampton
last night represents him as better in
every wry. The condition of his wound
is somewhat improved. His situation
may be regarded as more hopeful than
on Tuesday when it was feared he could
not survive.
GEORGIA AFFAIRS-
Some Questions the People Desire to have
Answered by the Georgia Legislature.
When you employ an agent in a bank
ing house he must make an yearly,
monthly or w'eekly exhibit, just as the di
rectors decide, and their books must bal
lanee or the directors will dismiss this
agent, who acts for them. Not only
must they ballance nominally, but every
item must show for itself. Ilis word
will not do, no matter how honest he is.
The proof must be there.
Now, we have a good deal of money in
oui State treasury. We common people
know that we pay in more and more,
year by year. We have no voice in our
assessment. We give in our little homes
and small income at a value we are not
ashamed to lay out before us and ask
God to bless our humble undertakings.
W'e give in this value to be taxed bj' the
proper authorities.
We see stranger things. When we are
perfectly quiet. No new enterprises on
hand, no court house or jail to be built,
no expensive bridges to be built, no new
expenses that fall in the range of our
vision; yet we find our taxes increase all
the time. We paid $7 on the thousand
under Bullock, while he “and his crew”
were said to be robbing the State, and
we pay our $lO on the thousand under
Colquitt and “the men who saved the
State.”
Now we want somebody to‘explain
this item to our comprehension. We
ask our law makers a clear, simple state
ment for our satisfaction. We are not
captious, w r e are not partizans. We are
simply ettizens who desire our stew ards
to render an account of the trust in their
hands. Don’t palaver us with a long
harrangue about the “nice system of
book-keeping.” Tell us where our money
has gone. Tell us why we pay more to
keep up the State government now than
we did in 1868-09 or even ’7O.
Article 4, section 12, paragraph 1, ex
pressly says “bonded debt of the State
shall never be increased, except to repel in
vasion, suppress insurrection, or defend
the State in time of war.” This new
Constitution took effect in December,
1877. Gov. Colquitt endorsed the North
eastern bonds ofterwards, thus increasing
the “bonded debt.” Aside from the in
vestigation of the Murphy fee, w r e desire
the Governor to explain this matter. Why
did he increase the bonded debt?
The new' constitution says “no money
shall be drawn from the treasury except
by appropriation made by law.” Will
this Legislature allow Governor Colquitt
to draw* money from the Treasury with
out any authority of law ?
What protection have we, the tax-pay
ers of the State, if these things be al
lowed? The Constitution says all bills
for raising revenue shall originate in the
House of Representatives. Who gave Col.
Colquitt this authority ? Let these mem
bers of the legislature take this matter
into consideration. We intend to place
our money and watch it, hereafter.
When Congress allowed the State of
Georgia $200,000 to pay her for damages
in the case of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad against, the State. Who did
that money belong to ? It came out of
the treasury of the United States by “au
thority of law. Only $150,000 went in
the Treasury of Georgia! What right had
Gov. Colquitt to pay out one-fourth of
that $200,000 before he, (acting as agent
of the State) turned over the w'hole
amount into the strong vault of Georgia ?
You may talk about lobbying contracts
until your head grow*? grays with age—
but the people of Georgia will never rec
ognize the right of any man or public j
officer to pay out money belonging to the
State, “except by appropriations made i
by law.”
Gov. Colquitt referred the payment of
a much smaller sum to the action of the
State legislature only a few weeks before,
a sum due to lawyers acting in a legal ca
pacity for the interests of the State.
This legislature must explain this mat
ter to the clear understanding of the tax
payers, or they may shoulder the burden
of neglect of duty. It is folly to excuse
this matter by saying “Georgia would
have gotten none of the $200,000, if it
had not been for Garlington and Alston.”
If that is so turn out the inefficient mem
bers ot Congress and put in these omni
potent lobbyists. If they do so much be
hind the scenes, let us have the benefit of
their open air ability. Gen. Gordon, we
recollect, published a statement, “that
the bill could stand on its own merits”
and dissuaded against employing legal
help. We want to know who has the
first right to the money of the people,
lobbyists or the people themselves ? If
they had earned this money why not al
low the appropriating power of the State
to say how and when they should be paid ?
Gov. Colquitt has only the power to exe
cute the laws. He has no right to help
greedy railroads nor lobbyists, without
proper direction from his masters —the
people. +
It is perfect folly to plaster over these
sores in the body politic. The people are
awake —they are sensitive about their
property in these days of suffering and
poverty. This money, when turned into
the State treasury, is still the property of
the people. They have only delegated
the right to appropriate it, to men chosen
in each county as their agents. It is not
the Governor’s money, ihe Secretary of
State’s money, the Treasurer’s money, nor
the Comptroller General’s money. Ex
cept their salaries they cannot use one
dime of it, and they must get these sala
ries by a regular course of procedure and
authorit y of law, without fees or perqui
sites. No swell-headed aristocracy is al
lowed in a free government, which pays
its servants for services performed and
for nothing else. The officials of any
State should act cautiously as the re
sponsible guardian of a delegated trust.
Their daily walk should defy criticism,
their conversation should be above re
proach, and their hands should be clean.
Not only must they be honest, but the
world should see their honesty. Then
display should not exceed their income,
because the people are sensitive about
this matter. No legislative investigation
is worth a baubee in the eyes of the pop
ulace, when investigation employs the
same words and procures the same result
invariably. We common people—tax
payers—are anxious for the truth —only
the Truth.
THE SILVER DOLLARS.
Tlie Two Bills Introduced in the House
Concerning Them.
In the House of Representatives, on
the 9th inst., Hon. W. H. Felton, on
leave, intrrduced the following bills, both
I of which were read twice, referred to the
| committee on banking and currency and
I ordered to be printed :
A BILL to make trade and Mexican sil
ver dollars a legal tender for all dues
at their nominal value, and to require
their recoinage into standard silver dol
lars.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
in Congress assembled, That the silver
dollar, authorized by act of Congress,
known as the trade dollar, be made, from
and after the passage of this act, a legal
tender, at their nominal value, for all
dues, public and private; and that the
Secretary of the Treasury be required to
have the same recoined into the standard
silver dollars authorized by act of Febru
ary twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and
seqenty-eight, as fast as they, the said
trade and Mexican dollars, are received
at the treasury of the United States.
A BILL to compel national banks to rec
ognize and receive the standard legal
tender silver dollar as equivalent in
value to the gold coins of the United
States,
Whereas, The banking institutions char
tered and authorized by the acts of
Congress should be permitted to con
tinue \ their existence and granted
powers only so long as they are loyal
to the laws of the United States and
comply with the requirements of the
government: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
from and after the passage of this act the
Secretary of the Treasury, on receiving
satisfactory proof that any national bank
in its corporate capacity is making any
destinction in matters of deposits or in
payment of any debt or debts due said
bank between the gold coins of the United
States and the standard siiver dollars au
thorized by the act of the twenty-eighth
of February, eighteen hundred and seven
ty-eight, entitled “An act to authorize the
coinage of the standard silver dollar, and
to restore its legal-tender characters”; or
that said bank is refusing to pay or re
ceive balances between said national bank
and association of banks known as clear
ing houses, either in gold or in United
States legal-tender notes, or in said legal
tender silver dollars; or if said bank is
prohibiting payment ot balances at clear
ing houses in said silver dollars, except
ing as subsidiary coin in small sums or
that said bank, in any of its fisical trans
actions with individuals, corporations,
or associated banks is making or propos
ing to make a distinction between the
gold coins of the United States and said
legal-tender silver coins as equal and
equivalent to each" other in value, then
the Secretary of the Treasury shall be au
thorized and required to place said nation
al bank in process of liquidation, ana j
shall at once wind up the business of said i
bank according to sections fifty-two hun
dred and thirty four, fifty-two hundred
and thirty-five, and fifty-two hundred and
thirty-six of the Revised Statutes of the
United states, and according to otner sec
tions or parts of sections of the national
banking act which provide for the liqida
ticn of national banks.
All laws and parts of laws which con
flict with this act are hereby repealed.
PENNSYLVANIA’S GREENBACK VOTE, i
In an interview* with the editor of the
Washington Sunday Republic, Judge Kel
ley thusexplaius the comparatively small
Greenback vote cast in Pennsylvania at
the November election “The explana
tion,” said Judge Kelley, “is to be found
in the utterances of the new -found mem
bers of the national party. There are
some wild talkers who have attached
themselves to the organization and pressed
to the fndnfc, declaring for unlimited pa-
per money, and other things equally fool
ish and absurd. Although these men in
no sense represented the Greenback
movement, yet their utterances were ea
gerly seized upon by the opposition. The,
Greenback agitation does not mean wild
inflation; it means the establishment of a
scientifically regulated legal tender cur
rency, at all times equal to and as good
as gold, which can never depreciate in
value, and which must always be equal
to the demands of business—no more and
no less. This is not inflation; there is
nothing wild in the idea. On the con
trary it is supported by the best expe
rience of modern finance; yet the vaga
ries of professed Green backers are seized
upon by the opposition and placed to the
credit of the party. It was this that
frightened off many sensible but timid
men in Pennsylvania, and reduced the
national vote by one-half.”
J. J. HOWARD Ac Son,
Exchange and Deposit Bank.
Deposits received subject to sight drafts.
Interest allowed on deposits according to
agreement.
Collections made in all parts of the United
t ates and Canadas.
Sight Exchange on New York and Atlanta
bought and sold.
Foreign exchange bought and sold.
Buy aud sell Gold, Stocks and Bonds on order.
Prompt attention given to commercial collec
tions. iuly!B.
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
COTTON MARKET.
CORRECTED BY J. J. HOWARD & SON.
There is a good demand for all grades of cotton
from spinners at the following quotations:
Good Middlings : : : : : 7%
Middlings : : : : : : 7
Stains : : : : : : 6@7
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
CORRECTED BY A. R. HUDGINS.
CORN—SS to 65 cents per bushel.
WHEAT—New, choice, white, 90c.; amber 85;
rod 75c.
OATS—per bushel, S3 to 40 cents.
HAY—7S cents per cwt.
RYE—CO to 70 cents.
POTATOES—Irish, 50 to 60 cents.
ONIONS—SO to 65 cents.
FLOUR—SS 00 to $6 00 per barrel.
POULTRY—Spring chickens 10 to 12 cents.
EGGS—Per dozen, 15 to 20 cents.
BUTTER—Per pound, 20 to 25 cent;
BEESWAX—Per pound, 20 to 25 cents.
HlDES—Green, 4 to 5 cents per pound; salted
6 cents; dry salted, 8 to 10 cents.
FEATHERS—Live geese 40 to 50 cents.
TALLOW —Per pound, 4 to 5 cents.
RAGS—Cotton, per pound, 2>£ to 3 cents.
APPLES—Per bushel, 40 to 50 cents.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
NOTICE.
Rave your photograpas taken
now, so as to be ready to pay your Christ
mas gifts.
W. M. BOSWELL, Artist.
W. T. WOFFORD,
ATTOR -NT E Y-AT-L A W,
—AND—
DEALER IN REAL ESTATE,
CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.
roll SALE OK EXCHANGE.
THE “CENTRAL HOTEL,” ADAIRSVILLE,
Georgia—a three-story brick building; large
yards, garden and orchard attached.
Address J. C. MARTI N,
deol9-tt Adairsville, Ga.
G. S. TUMLIN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
CA RT KRSVILLE, GA.
TT7TLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
V V in Bartow county, the Superior Courts of
the Cherokee Circuit, the Supreme Court and the
United States Court for the Northern District of
Georgia. decl9-4mos
ESSEX CHOICE,
The “Old. Reliable” Barber,
STILL CONTINUES THE TONSORIAL ART.
He is now running four chairs—three on the
east side of the square, and one over the Store ol
J. A. Stephens, West Main street. This latter
shop is in charge of W T illiam Johnson, an excel
lent young barber. As heretofore, Essex guar
antees satisfaction to his customers, and will
leave nothing undone to please them. Call on
ESSEX CHOICE.
CHRISTMAS HOODS!
A. D. VANDIVERE
IS STILL AT THE HEAD, LEADING THE
van, and keeping the choicest Confectioneries,
Cakes and Family Supplies at his place of busi
ness cn West Main street.
I make a specialty of cake-baking for
suppers and par-ties.
A. D. VANDIVERE.
AUCTION SALE I
CLOSING OUT! CLOSINC OUT!
ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON NEXT, AT
two o’clock, I will sell, at auction, the goods
remaining of the stock of N. Gilreath & Son,
bankrupts. This is a favorable opportunity to
buv goods at a low price.
I take this occasion to make the
Last Call to Persons
indebted to the estate of said bankrupts. The
notes and books of account can be found at my
law office. A. M. JFOUTE,
dec,l9-lt Assignee.
S. J. FRANKLIN,
EAST MAIN STREET,
Cartersville, ----- Georgia,
DRV GOODS AND FAMILY GROCERIES,
IT EEPS ON HAND ALL KINDS OF STAPLE
L 1 >rv Goods and Family Groceries. He keeps
also a fine stock of
LOOTS SHOES,
All of which he proposes to sell at the lowest
cash prices. He invites the patronage of his
friends and the public, guaranteeing satisfaction
to all who trade with him. decl9-tf
FARMING LANDS
—ANP —
City and Village Property
—FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR—
ATLANTA REAL ESTATE
I AM BUYING AND SELLING FARMING
lands and Cartersville and village property
in Bartow (formerly Cass) county. I have for
sale fifteen farms, most of them near the railroad
depot, rtnd convenient to post-offices, churches
and schools. These lands produce cotton, all the
grains and grasses, and water and timber good
and abundant. This village is fifty-three miles
north of Atlanta. Ga., and eigty miles south of
Chattanooga, Tenn. Address
WM. T. WOFFORD,
Attorney at Law and Dealer in Real Estate,
Cass Station, Georgia.
TJT7CT business you can engage in; $5 to
X3 JUiio X S2O per day by any worker of either
sex, right in their own localities. Particulars
and samples worth $5 free. Improve your spare
time afc this business. Address STINSON & DO.,
Auguatu, Maine. feb2S-ly
CARTERSVILLE
High School.|
TTTILL BE OPEN FOR THE ADMISSION
V \ of pupils, of both sexes, on
MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1878,
And continue six months. Tution, from $2 to it
per month, payable monthly. Patrons are ear- :
neatly desired to enter their children at the be
ginning of the session. Pupils prepared for any
class in college.
R. JOHNSTON, Principal.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following passenger schedule took effect
July 14th, 1878:
NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 2:00 pm
Leave Cartersville 3:54 pm i
Leave Kingston 4:2lpm
Leave Dalton 6:10 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 7:47 p m
NIGHT PASSENGER —DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:10 pm
Leave Dalton 6:58 pm
Leave Kingston 8:27 pm
Leave Cartersville 8:53 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 10:40 pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 6:25 am
Leave Cartersville . ~ 8:16 am
Leave Kingston • B:ia a m
Leave Dalton 10:20 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 11:55 a m
DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 7:10 a m
jueave Dalton 9:06 am
Leave Kingston . . .' 10:39 am
Leave Cartersville 11:06 am
Arrive at Atlanta DOO p m
“The Most Widely Quoted Southern
Newspaper.”
1879. THE 1879.
ATLANTA DAILY_ CONSTITUTION,
ttte have few promises to make for the Cou-
W stitutiou for 1879. The paper speaks for
itself, and upon that ground the managers oiler
it to the public as the best, the brightest, the
newsiest and the most complete daily journal
published in the South. This is the verdict of
our readers, and the verdict of the most criti
cal of our exchanges.
The managers will he pardoned for briefly al
luding to some of the features which have given
the Constitution prominence among Southern
papers.
I. It prints all the news, both by mail aud tele
graph.
11. Its telegraphic service is fuller than that of
any other Georgia paper—its special dispatches
placing it upon a footing, so far as the news is
concerned, with the metropolitan journals.
111. Its compilation of the news by mail is the
freshest of the best, comprising everything of in
terest in the current newspaper literature of the
dav.
IV. Its editorial department is full, bright and
vivacious, and its paragraphs and opinions are
more widely quoted than those of any Southern
journal. It discusses all questions of public in
terest, and touches upon ali current themes.
V. “Bill Arp,” the most genial of humorists,
will continue to contribute to its columns. “Old
Si” and “Uncle Remus” will work in their spe
cial fields, and will furnish fun both in prose and
verse.
VI. It is a complete news, family and agricul
tural journal. It is edited with the greatest
care, and its columns contain everything of in
terest in the domain of politics, literature and
science.
VI. In addition to these, full reports of the Su
preme Court, and of the proceedings of the Gen •
oral Assembly, will be published, and no pains
will be spared to keep the paper up to its present
standard.
The Terms.
The daily edition is served by mail or carrier
at $lO per annum, postage prepaid.
The weekly edition is served, at $1 50 per an
num, or ten copies for sl2 50.
Agents wanted in every city, town and county
in Georgia and surrounding States. Liberal
commissions paid and territory guaranteed.
Send for circulars.
Advertisements ten, fifteen and twenty cents
per line, according to location. Contract rates
furnished upon application to the business office.
Correspondence containing important news,
briefly put, solicited from all parts of the country.
All letters or dispatches must be addressed to
THE CONSTITUTION,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Prospectus for 1879.
THE MARYLAND FARMER,
The oldest continuously published Agri
cultural Magazine in Maryland
or the South.
.A. Me nt hly Magazine
devoted to
Agriculture, Horticulture,
And Rural Economy, including
Farming, Stockbreeding, Pomology,
The Garden and Floriculture,
Apiary, Dairy and House
hold Affairs.
EZRA WHITMAN,
Editor and Proprietor.
W. W. W. BOWIE.
Associate Editor.
Office: No. 141 W. Pratt Street, Baltimore, Md.
TERMS—One copv, one year, (in advance) $1;
$1.50, if not paid in advance, and positively no
deduction. 6 copies, one year $5; 20 copies, sls.
Fashionable Barber Shop.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
Up-stairs, Over New York Store, Lank Block,
By jooTtaylor.
Has been in the business ss years,
and if one of the most accomplished bar
bers in the South. His shop fs well and comfort
ably furnished. He is the only barber in the
State who uses Phalon’s Celebrated Chemical
Hair Invigoratorf to prevent baldness and dis
eases of the scalp. All who have tried it know
it to be a specific.
He also uses the celebrated Russian Couissan
Shaving Soap, which is known to be the best soap
in the world. It has the invaluable property of
preventing pimples and all cutaneous eruptions.
To those who shave twice a week, he will fur
nish a private soap and lather cup, free of charge.
The patronage of the public generally is in
vited and respectfully solicited. Polite, courte
ous and gentlemanly treatment is observed to
ward all, aud satisfaction guaranteed.
julyl.B JOHN TAYLOR, Proprietor.
Adairsyille High School.
MALE AND FEMALE.
WILL OPEN FOR THE YEAR 1879 AS
follows: Winter and Spring Term opens
January 6th, and closes May 30th; Fall Term
opens July 7th, and closes Nov. SJB.
Patrons receiving the benefit of the public
fund during the fall session.
Rates of Tuition from ?l.r>o to $3.50 per month.
The school organized and well
disciplined, offering every inducement either in
partial or thorough academical course as desired.
Competent instruction given in Vocal and In
strumental Music at moderate rates.
Looaiitv beautiful and healthy, good society
and the best of moral influences around it.
Board can he had at moderates rates in good
families or with the Principal.
MATTHEW MARSHALL, Principal.
Reference*: J. M. Yeach, Jno. W. Gray, A. C.
Trimble, Dr. T. M. Layton, Gardner Shaw, I. D.
Bowdon, and others. * decs
SUMNER HOUSE,
(Corner Main and Tennessee Streets,)
Cartersville, Georgia.
MR. SUMNER HAVING REMOVED FROM
the Foster House back to the old Sumner
House, and having spent considerable time and
money in refurnishing and fitting up nis hotel,
is now prepared to accommodate the traveling
public In the most acceptable manner.
Terms Very Low and in Keeping with the
Times.
BOARD can be obtained at this house cheaper
than anywhere else in North Georgia. Stop and
see for yourselves. sepo.
Notice.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIRE
ments of the constitution of Georgiy in refer
ence to local legislation. I hereby give notice,
that I will introduce to the Legislature, which is
now in session, the following bills, to-wit:
AN ACT, To repeal an act creating a county
court for the oonntv of Bartow.
Also, AN ACT, To ammend the charter of Car
tersuille; the purpose of this amendment is a
reduction of the Board of Aldermen from eight
to four, that is one for each ward; and providing
for the election of the marshal of the city by the j
people at the time the mavor and aldermen are ,
elected. This theLth October, 1878.
Nov2B-30d THOMAS W. MILNER. j
Public School Teachers.
AND AFTER MONDAY, THE 11th
instant, I will be ready to pay off Teachers at
the store of Messrs. Stokcly & Williams.
THEO. E. SMITH, C. S. C.
Christ in a s NX ill ing r y!
MISS LEO SHOCKLEY
TXFORMS THE LADIES THAT SHE HAS
I in st received a fresh mstallm nt of-MILL.
XFRY especially suited to Christmas times.
Many novelties, which the ladies should exam-
—
home-made goods.
T7ROM THE EAGLE & Jsßbrtinir
h (Columbus.) Plaid and Striped SUirting
-a new article. HEAVY JEANS, for tbe
tor, which every Southern
ettWagt horn? industry. T. B. SHOCKLEY.
SUCCESS !
THE DREADED CAMCER CURED,
The North Georgia Medical In
stitute Discharges Another
Cancer Patient!
STATEMENT OF O. C. CAMPBELI :
Duriug the year 1860, a small; dark-brown
speck appeared on the skin, between my left
cheek and nose, and continued for abo it six
months, when it dropped off, leaving a small,
red spot on the skin. Gradually the little row
speck re-formed on my cheek, aud enlarged a
little.
After forming and dropping off in this n aimer
several times, and enlarging a little ever, time,
the scab began to loosen a little around, the edges
and adhere in the middle, and would bleed
a little w hen pulled off. After this I cou I dis
cover a small quantity of yellowish matter form
ed uudsr the scab when it was pulled oil'.
This state of tilings continued on until the year
j 1869, when the scab had enlarged to the sire of a
i grain of coffee. Din ing the year 1870, 1 had a se
vere spell of fever, which settled in m> head,
and this spot on my cheek became very much in
flamed, and ran into my left eye, inflaming it
also. Becoming alarmed, about this time, I con
sulted several eminent physicians, all of whom
pronounced it a cancer, and told me it would
j finally put out my eye.
I then tried a patent medicine, recomn.ended
! by a physician, but without any good rosuhs.
' Mv next resort was to the conjurers am faith
doctors, two of each, without receiving any bene
ficial results, the cancer all the while growing
gradually worse.
During the year 1874, or 1875, two physicians,
claiming to be able to cure cancers, ci me to
1 Rome, Ga., and advertised themselves as cancer
doctors. Having called ou them, and placed
myself under their treatment, they exa ained
me and pronounced my affection cancer. They
put me under a course of treatment, which lasted
about five weeks, but resulted in no material
benefit. The cancer, in the meantime, had grad
| nally increased, until it entirely surrounded my
| left eye.
About the middle of September last, I learned
from Mr. M. E. Cooper the fact that F. W.
Memmler, M. D., had located at Cartersville,
Georgia, and that he professed to cure cancers.
By advice of Dr. Marion J. Dudley, of Gordon
county, who was my family physician, I came to
Cartersville, consulted Dr. Memmler, and placed
myself regularly under his treatment; and i
; will avail myself of this opportunity to express
gratitude both to Mr. Cooper and Dr. Dudley for
the information and advice, which I look upon
as nothing less than Providential instruments in
bringing me under the treatment sf Doctor
Memmler.
After the preliminary examination which Dr.
Memmler made of my case, he frankly told n>e
that he could not promise me a permaneu and
thorough cure without the amputation of my
left eye, which operation he was afraid I would
be unable to survive, in consequence of my ad
vanced gge, I being then about seventy years of
age. lie said, however, that he could give me
relief by Mopping the cancer pain and am ding
its future eating into the flesh around nr eye.
After treating me about two weeks, be info med
me that, as my constitution was stronger than he
had at first supposed, and I had stood the toeat
meut better than he had expected, he could do
more for me than he had at first promised. I
have continued under his treatment from that
time until the present, and I now consider that
he has done far more for me than he promised.
I think now that my cancer is entirely subdued,
the pain is relieved and my eye-sight is unhurt.
In conclusion, I offer this certificate as a free
testimonial to the professional skill of Dr.
Memmler, and tender him my heartfelt tfc mks
for the inestimable benefit conferred upon me,
and would earnestly advise all persons afflicted
with cancers to avail themselves of his treatment.
O. C. CAMPBELL,
Postoffice: Calhoun, Gordon county, Ga.
The above certificate was sworn to and sub
scribed before me this December 14, 1873.
J. W. PRITCHETT, N. P. & J. P-
All Chroilie Diseases Cured and
Surgical Operations Per
formed at the North
Georgia Medical
Institute.
MEMMLER & JOHNSON,
Proprietors*
OARTERSVILLE Ga