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GHEROKEE RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, June 10, 1878, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
GOING WEST. Arrive. Leave. ;
Uartersville 1:30 pm
Stilesboro 2:15 p m 2:20 p m
Taylorsville 2:45 pm 8:00 pm
Rockmart 4:00 pm
GOING EAST.
Rockmart G :00 am
Taylorsville 7:00 am 7:15 a m
Stilesboro 7:40 a m 7:45 a m
Uartersville 8:35 am
WILLIAM MacRAE, Sup’t.
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after Monday, November 30th, the fol
lowing schedule will 'be run by the Steamer
MAGNOLIA:
Leave Rome Monday 9atn
Arrive at Gadsden Tuesday 7am]
Leave Gadsden Tuesday Bpm
Arrive at Rome Wednesday 6 j> m
Leave Rome Thursday 9am
Arrive at Gadsden Friday 7am
Leave Gadsden Friday 6 p in
Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm
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ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
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day train—every day.
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Arrive at Rome 12:00 m
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION.
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WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
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Leave Uartersville 4:38 pm
Leave Kingston 5:04 pm
Leave Dalton 6:50 pm
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Leave Dalton 7:06 p m
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Leave Uartersville 9:00 pm
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VOLUME I.
SUCCESS !
SCROFULA CURED!
P
The North Georgia Medical In
stitute Discharges Another
Scrofula, Patient!
My lititle boy now four years of age was af
flicted with the loathsome disease, Scrofula,
which exhibited external symptoms at about six
months of age. He became very weak, his skin
presented a peculiar yellow appearance—had no
appetite, became so very poor in flesh that he
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was really unpleasant to look at. Large swell
ings appeared under ins rigid arm, and Anally
they broke.and continually discharged the most
fearfully offensive odor—almost unbearable—liis
mother could hardly bear to wash and dress the
deep-running sores. After the disease had gone
on for about a month, we called in our family
physician, a man who bore the reputation of be
ing a learned and skillful physician. After
treating the case for a number of months, he
told us that it would take two or three years to
perform a cure. However, lie continued to treat
the child, but with no manner of benefit as we
could see. Indeed, with the painful lancing and
unpleasant internal medicines the poor little
creature seemed, to grow more restless and a
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great deal b eaker.
About this time myself and wife came to the
determination to change physicians, but were
greatly troubled as we then knew of no one
-whom we could trust with more confidence than
the one engaged. Happily, through the advice
of a friend—one who deeply sympathized with
us in our dire distress—we wore directed to see
and consult Drs. Memmler & Johusonf who had
established an Infirmary in Uartersville. Our
consultation with those gentlemen resulted in
our turning over to them the treatment of the
little child, whom we deemed beyond the skill of
any earthly physician; hut our love for the dear
child, who had gone through so much suffering,
prompted us to leave nothing undone that prom
ised the least relief. After thoroughly examin
ining their patient, Drs. Memmler & Johnson
began treatment. We had given only three
doses of their medicine, when we noticed consid
erable improvement, and every day thereafter
improvement went rapidly on. With nothing
but internal remedies, no sore, no plasters, no
lancing was resorted to by the above named gen
tlemen. Simply their internal remedies, after
hardly three months’ treatment have performed
the cure which it was said required years to ac
complish.
And now, in conclusion, I invoke the richest
blessings of the Great Physician—who looks over
all things—to bless and prosper them, and to the
afflicted world we feel that we could wish them
no greater earthly blessing than to fall under
the care and treatment of these gentlemen. If
any desire to hear from me directly, they will ad
dress me at Uartersville, Ga.
Most respectfully,
his
NIMROD X HOWREN.
mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd
day of February, 1879.
J. W. PRITCHETT, N. P. & J. P.
All Chronic Diseases Cured and
Surgical Operations Per
formed at the North
Georgia Medical
Institute.
MEMMLER & JOHNSON,
Proprietors.
UABTJ3WYILLK Ga
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YEGETINE.
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Baltimore, Mn., Feb. 13,1877.
Mr. 11. It. Stevens:
Dear Sir.—Since several years I have got a
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cians, but they couldn’t cure me. Now I have
heard of your Yegetine from a lady who was
sick for a long time and became alf well from
vour Yegetine, and I went and bought me one
bottle of Yegetine; and after I had used one bot
tle, the pairs left me, and It began to heal, and
then I bought one other bottle, and eo I take it
yet. 1 thank God for this remedy and yourself;
and wishing every sufferer may pay attention to
it. It is a blessing for health."
Mrs. C. KRABE, (538 West Baltimore St.
vegFtine
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In 1872 your Yegetine was recommended to me,
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Yours, respectfully,
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VEGrETINE
What is Needed.
Boston, Feb. 13,1871.
If. R. Stevens , Esq.
Dear Sir—About one year since I found my£
self in a feeble condition from general debility.
Yegetine was strongly recommended to me bya
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Firm of S. M. Petteugill & G 0.,/ <
No. 10 State st., Boston.
V E Gr E T 11ST E
All Have Obtained Relief.
South Berwick, Me./ Jan. 17,1872. *
11. li. Stevens. Esq.
Dear Sir—l have had dyspepsia in its worst
form for the last ten years, and have taken him-'
dredsof dollars’ worth of medicates without ob
taining any relief. In September las^* I
menced taking the 'Vegetinc, siiice which time
my health has steadily fmproteif. My food di
gests Well, and I have gained fifteen pounds of
flesh. There are several others in this place
taking Vegetike, and all have obtained relief.
v ours, truly, r THOS.E. MOORE,
Overseer of Card Room, Portsmouth Co.’s Mills.
VE Gr E~T 11ST E
Prepared by
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YEGETINE
Is sold by all Druggists.
Great Bargains.
J. A. ERWIN & SON
ARE OFFERING AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK OF
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
CONSISTING OF
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Boots and Shoes,
Boots and Shoes,
Crockery, &c., &c.,
Crockery, &c M &c.,
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Uartersville, Ga., Sept. 19th, 1878.
MORNING NEWS SERIALS.
A IV EW STORY
BY A SAVANNAH LADY.
-IN THE
SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS
OF FEBRUARY IST.
Will be commenced a New Serial Story of ab
sorbing interest, entitled
WARP AND WOOF !
BY MISS It. J. PHILBRICK.
rpiIIS BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND IN-
L teresting store, illustrative of Southern
character and Southern life in town and country,
will run through several weekly issues of the
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Tee Weekly News is one of the largest and
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cles on the Orange Culture, written expressly for
its pages by Mr. C. Uodrington, of Florida, which
-will be found interesting and valuable to those
engagedin orange growing. Another feature of
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York Fashion Letteas, by an accomplished lady
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CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20. 1879.
THE TREE IMW A RDM ESS.
We told the readers of The Free P.rfss
last summer all about the trade with J.
E. Bryant, who bought out Mr. Iloltz
claw in the interest of the Lester faction.
Col. Bryant went up the state road in
company with a liQted politician and
straightway Iloltzelaw was nominated
We can give the proof. A copy of the
Indianapolis Journal hits just fallen into
our hands, dated October 24th, 1878. The
dispatch that attracts our notice is headed
thus: “The Democrats buying up Cheap
Republicans in Northern Georgia to Op
pose Felton for Congress.”
It has leaked out that the congressional demo
| eraitc committee lias been furnishing money to
, certain obscure republicans in northern Georgia
to aid them in making a diversion in opposition
to the re-election of congressman Felton, inde
pendent democrat. Perhaps it is the first time
on record when democrats have furnished money
to aid the canvass of a republican, but as Felton
has always received the republican vote in his
district they hope to defeat his re-election by
furnishing means to ostensibly aid the elpction
of one Holtzclaw, a self-appointed candidate
who is thus aiding the election of Lester, the
regular democratic nominee in the seventh dis
trict.
It may be the first time “on record,”
but it is not likely the first time it has
happened. Now, friends, we leave it to
your candid judgment to say, why and ;
wherefore this effort was made in our
district. Not only was the state house j
enlisted—not only were the federal offi
cials in the state used and sought to be
used —not only did the state executive
committee use its force and authority, j
but the national executive committee in
Washington furnished money to he used
by Bryant to help the? so-called organized
democracy of Georgia. What are we
coming to? Did we not tell you that
/the alliance for public plunder w as gen
eral between the rfifflical wings of both
parties ?
We have always criticized the republi
can party severely for the use of money
in elections, and there was a wholesale
outcry w hen every official in Washington
w r as assessed to carry the Hayes and
Wheeler ticket. Here we have the fact
, that so-called democrats w ere fighting us
here in the seventh district, wifih money
placed in J, E. Bryant’s hands to help
*Lester. Talk about freedom at the bal
lot box! What a fafee is this? It will
all leak out, and there is more behind;
w T e judge from what has gone before.
. Watch! ' .
OEM. SII ERMA M'S LETTER.
The Free Fress was not included in
the favored of the press of the state in re
ceiving advanced copies of Gen. Sher
man’s letter last week from the Constitu
tion office; but, nevertheless, the same
will be found on the fourth page, for
which we ask a careful perusal. The
letter is certainly candidly written. It
bears the impress of honesty, clearness
and incisiveuess.
The general gives the proper meaning
of the term “carpet-bagger,” a breed of
political blizzards we hope never to greet
in the south again ; but he says the term
is not so well understood, and it has the
effect of keeping the people there away
from the south who woidd otherwise
come here to live because of the superior
advantages offered for agriculture and
enterprise. The letter of Gen. Sherman
will doubtless do much to dissipate such
a misunderstanding of the term “carpet
bagger” in the minds of northern people.
There has not been the time since the
war when the good people of the south
were opposed to immigration to t-his>sec
tion of all good citizens in the north who
desired to make their home amongst us.
Population, capital and enterprise are
what we need more than anything else
in the development of the vast and va
rious resources of wealth in the south.
These we desire to the extent of wel
coming all who will come. With these
the south would become an empire of
wealth, in the course of time, unparallel
ed in the history of the world.
If the northern papers would do jus
tice to the southern people as General
Sherman has done, there would be an
influx of immigration here that would
add millions of wealth to the country
and unexampled prospertv to all classes
of the people. Will they do so? Or,
do they fear the depletion of their own
population ? These may be reasons why
the northern press continue to keep up
the war prejudices against the south.
And now the Augusta Chronicle is
aroused with serious alarm. The ghost
of Felton haunts its distorted imagina
tion. It sees an apparition in the
shape of him for governor next year.
We tell our friends, seriously, not to be
frightened at all, Dr. Felton don’t want
to be governor. The Atlanta Constitu
tio'i ought not to have so excited the
fears of the Chronicle. But, if General
Toombs or General Wofford should be
induced to run for governor by a loud
call from the people next year, won’t we
have fun ?
If some of the papers don’t quit talk
ing about Dr. Felton running for - gover
nor, behanged if we don’t put him on
the track and let him go any how, al
though we know lie doesn’t want to lie
the chief magistrate of the state.
Some of our brethren of the press
don’t know what to do with Senator Hill.
They have to kill Ben. every now and
then—on paper. But, they resuscitate
him always at the right time.
It is political heresy in Georgia to say
a word in opposition to any member of
the Kirkwood mutual admiration society.
Wilhelmj has turned loose the flood
gates of witticism of the Georgia press,
much of which is very flat.
The best and truest friends of The
Free Press are those who subscribe for
it and pay lor it promptly.
If TLX AND COLQUITT AGAIN.
rr by tl,e treatment that Don. B,
ii. J till has received, it is more
°us here in democratic Georgia to expose
than commit fraud. For the last few
months the press has pouted out up*on
j tlle distinguished senator abuse hardly
. surpassed in amount t*-rancor by tha*t
heaped upon Bullock, Blodgett and “Fat
ty" Harris during the worst days of the
radical reqime. And for what? Because
lor sooth, he has called the attention of the
people of Georgia to the fact that a cor
pora t ion has been taxed to the amount of
eight thousand dollars by an underlin 0 *
of the treasury department for gettnm
to do what in law he was required to do!
His Excellency has chosen to consider
his honor and honesty impugned. .He
called upon the legislature to examine
his motives, and the committee in their
! reports—which might have been, and for
we know were written before their ap
pointment—have laid on the whitewash
tnick enough to satisfy the laVgest vanity.
Not only did they exonerate the govern
or, which thej T were perhaps right in do-*
ing, hut they also exculpated the treas
ury clerk, which they could do only by
going full in the face of facts. These re
ports were preceded and have been fol
lowed by a clamorous shout from three
fourths of the press, of “Gov. Colquitt is
emaculate and Ben Hill is a villian.”
Now, we believe that Gov. Colquitt’s
honesty would pass muster as honesty
goes these degenerate clays, and we would
not feel inclined to stake too heavily on
that of Senator Hill. But we insist that
the character, motives and intentions of
Mr. Hill have nothing to do with the
matter in hand. He has brought to no
tice to the people the fact that a great
wrong has been done, a foul piece of cor
ruption practiced under the very nose of
the chief executive of the state. * It is the
duty of the people—more especially of
the democratic party, to condemn that
wrong unsparingly* and unequivocally.
The evil that may be now corrected by
driving J. VV. Murphy from office, strip
ped of his ill-gotten gains and with the
brands of dishonesty upon him, may in
a few years become incurable. If the
governor makes common cause with Mur
phy, the people must tell him candidly
that his good name, were it twenty times
fairer, cannot shield him from their con
demnation. If the house at their meet
ing in July adopt either report ol the
committee, tlie people should let them
know at the next election that men are
not fit to be their representatives who in
one breath declare a thing not at all
wrong,'and the doer of it not the least
guilty, and in the next say that the thing
should not be done again.* We do not be
lieve that either the fierce onslaught on
Senator Hill or the loud vauntings of
Gov. Colquitt’s integrity will blind them
to the facts or distract them from the real
issue. The question is not about Hill’s
patriotism and honesty or adout Gov.
Colquitt’s freedem from corruption. It
is simply whether or not clerks in any of
the departments under the control ofthe
executive have the right to extort money
from citizens of the state for procuring
the governor’s signature to instruments
of writing which he is in law bound to
sign. Presented to the people thus
without any disguise of words or mixture
of irrelevant issues, we have no doubt of
their answer.— Crawfordville Democrat.
THE CATOOSA SPRINGS.
We learn with pleasure that one of the
most popular and famous of our southern
resorts —probably the most beautiful of
them all—Catoosa springs, has been put
under auspices that will insure to it a
bright and successful future.
Through various reverses this enchant
ing place has lost much of its prestige, all
of which it will now regain. Mr. B. W.
Wrenn, whose name is a synonym of en
ergy and who pushes everything he un
dertakes to success, has effected a lease
on the entire property for the term of
ten years. It is probable that it will be
run by Mr. J. R. Campbell, of the St.
James hotel, Jacksonville, Florida, and
late of the Kimball house. Mr. Camp
bell is one of the most capable hotel men
in the country, and his St. James is the
best of Florida hotels. He put the Kim
ball on its feet by an administration of a
few months, and will doubtless do more
than this lor old Catoosa. There is no
spot in the south that for beauty of scen
ery, salubrity of climate, variety of pleas
ure, strength ot diversity of mineral wa
ters,, and general natural advantages can
near equal Catoosa. Under the leaseship
of the indomitable Wrenn and the man
agement of Colonel Campbell, we shall
be surprised if it* does not go to the very
head and front of the Georgia watering
places during its first season. We are
sincerely glad to see it in such capital
hands. It lias always deserved such
management as it is about to get. — Atlan
ta Constitution.
THE PENSION ARREARS DILEMMA.
Secretary Sherman receives many in
quiries from persons interested in the re
cent pension bill, asking why the large
coin reserve in the treasury .cannot he
ased to pay arrears of pensions without
issuing a fresh lot of greenbacks, or in
creasing the bonded debt. The secreta
ry’s reply was that there is no coin avail
able to pay these pensions, and not a
dollar will be paid until a specific appro
priation is made. The coin is mainly a
resumption fund, and to use it would be
to hazard the permanent success of re
sumption. There are but three ways to
provide for demands made by the arrears
of pensions bill—levying in small annual
installments, or issue bonds, or increase
taxation. One of three, in the secre
tary’s opinion, must be done, especially
as reduced tax on tobacco is threatened,
which will cut down revenues $9,000,000
annually.
Referring to the proposition made in
many quarters to issue $40,000,000 addi
tional currency, the secretary said it
would be “disastrous, destroy confidence,
send gold upward, and destroy the re
sults we had labored so long and suffered
so much to achieve.”.
Gen. Thomas Ewing having, in a re
cent interview, declared that it would be
futile for the democratic party to attempt
to outlaw the greenback, and that the
masses of the democratic party every
where are in hearty accord with the na
tionals on their two great ideas—the un
limited coinage of the old silver dollar,
and the substitution of legal tenders for
bank notes, the New York World says
that “if General Ewing is correctly re
ported, and if, being correctly reported,
he reports correctly the opinions and
wishes of the ‘democratic masses’ of the
west, nothing but the conservative inter
position of the ‘solid south’ can prevent
the disruption of the democratic party as
a national organization.”
The monument to Victor Emanuel
which Italy desires to raise will cost, it is
estimated, not less than $2,000,000. It is
to consist of a colossal equestrian statue
mounted on a triumphal arch, aud the
competition is to lie thrown open to all
the world.
SOUND CHEDIT.
L W ashington Special to Cincinnati Commercial.]
It i> lemarked hone as a lktie singular
tnut the only corporations, outside of the
l nited states government, able to tloat a
tour-per-cent, loan at par, are the city ot
Boston and the State of Georgia. The
excellent credit of Boston is a matter of
history. She has always been able to
noi row money at a lower rate than any
pther American city, for she never ai
; ‘dued an-obligation to go to protest, and
etery item ot real and personal property
In the city is Ikiblo for the. city’s debt, no
matter to whom it belongs. The holder
ot a dishonored coupon can levy upon a
block of stores for bis debt and get it.
l'hese are the reasons given in explana
tion why the credit of Boston is equal to
* that of the general government.
Among the States, and 'particularly
among the Southern States, the credit of
Georgia stands pre-eminent; Every ob
ligation is met with “spot cash”.in ad
vance of maturity. The State treasurer
recently passed through here from a visit
to New York, where lie was offered all
the money he wanted at 4 and 5 per cent,
Georgia is now floating a 4 percent, loan
at par. The bonds are flve and ten dol-
I lars, with coupons attached, calling for
interest at 4 per cent. She is the first
I State in the Union to float a loan at par
at this low rate of interest. Since the
war the rate of taxation has been flve
mills or above, which has kept her credit
up to a high plane. Besides, the State
owns the Western ct Atlantic railroad,
running from Chattanooga to Atlanta,
j 138 miles, which pays a rental into the
j treasury at the rate of one thousand dol
! lars a day. The completion of the Cin
| cinnati Southern road will nearly double
the value of this property and muke it
j worth eight or ten millions of dollars, a
sum equal to the entire debt of Georgia.
Georgians in public life here are very
proud of the financial standing of their
State, one of them remarking the other
day that he would rather see the tax rate
raised from five to fifteen mills than a
single obligation should go to protest or
the financial fame of the State tarnished.
“MY DEAR GENERAL.”
The following *i s a copy- of President
Hayes’ letter to General Merritt: Execu
tive Mansion, Washington, February 4,
1879 —My Dear General: I congratulate
you on your confirmation. It is a great
gratification to me and very honorable to
yon and will prove, I believe, of signal
service to the country. My desire is
that the office he conducted on strictly
business principles and according to
rules for the civil service which were
recommended by the civil service com
mission in the administration of General
Grant. I want you to be perfectly inde
pendent of mere influences from any
quarter. Neither my recommendation
nor that of Secretary Sherman, or any
member of congress, or any other influ
ential person, must be specially regarded.
Let appointments and removals be made
on a business principle and according to
rules. There must, I assume, be few
confidential places filled by those you
personally know to be trustworthy, hut
restrict the area of patronage to the nar
rowest limits. Let no man he put out
merely because he is a friend to Mr. Ar
thur, and no man be put in merely be
cause he is our friend. The good of the
service should be the sole end in view.
The best means yet presented, it seems
to me, are the rules recommended by the
civil service cfttnmissioner. I shall issue
>io new order on the subject at present. I
am glad you approve of the message,
and 1 wish you to see that all that is ex
pressed or implied in it is faithfully car
ried out. Again congratulating you, and
assuring you of my entire confidence, I
remain sincerely, R. B. Hayes.
THE COTTON CROP.
A report from the agricultural depart
ment has just been issued. Among other
items it gives the prices of the cotton
crop, concerning which, it is said, we are
guided by the prices received by tle
planter, which have ruled excessively
low this winter, the average for the
whole country being about 8% cents per
pound. The prices to the war in 1859
and 18G0 of the amount imported into
Great Britain from the United States
were four-fifths of their whole importa
tions. During the war it fell ofl to less
than two per cent. Starting in ISG6 at
thirty-seven per cent, we find that in
1878 we had regained the position we
Held prior to 1861, and that four-fifths
of the cotton used and manufactured in
Great Britain came from the United
States. The proportion of our total crop
exported to foreign ports was 3,340,000
bales out of a crop of 4,750.000 bales
during the year ending September 1,
1878; The production of this great sta
ple seems to he too large and the result
is shown in the glutted markets and low
prices, the large crops of 1878 being
worth less than that of the preceding
year. Basing The calculation on prices
returned by the producer, we find the
value of the crop of 1878 to be $194,700,-
000, and 1877, $240,000,000; while the
number of hales was 4,750,000 in 1877,
and 5,200,000 in 1878.
♦♦♦
The comptroller of the currency re
ports that the total amount of bonds held
by national hanks as security for circu
lating notes on the Ist of February was
$348,939,200. Of sliis amount $68,901,-:
GSO were G per cent, bonds, of which
$53,907,500 arc Gs of 1881, $5,054,000 Pa
cific railway Gs, and $9,000,150 are 5-20s.
The banks also hold $184,856,300 of 5 per
cents, of which amount $65,319,850 are
70-40s, and the remainder, $119,530,150,
5s of 1881. There are also held by the
hanks $43,578,550 of per cents, and
$52,542,700 of 4 pe r cents. The comp
troller reports an increase in national
bank circulation for the last three months
of $1,939,054. The amount of national
bank circulation outstanding on the Ist
inst was $322,930,849.
Mrs. Eliza Langhorn died in Louis
ville, Ky., February 7th, aged eighty-one
years. She belonged to families' well
known in the history of Virginia and
Kentucky. Her grandfather, William
Payne, had a personal difficulty with
General Washington, during ' which
Payne knocked the father of his country
down the Alexandria (Va.) court house
yard. . |
The London Standard's correspondent
says that various prelates in Rome have
been lectured about the queer company
they keep, and priests have been forbid
den to wear lay attire and frequent the
aters. The present Pontiff is a discipli
narian.
—i
A hill has been introduced in the New
York legislature providing that all at
torneys admitted to practice in the su
preme court of that state shall he em
powered to perform the duties of notaries
public.
The proprietors of the skating rink at
Worcester, Mass., have been Bued for re
fusing to allow colored people to skate.
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NUMBER 32.
THE NEW HAMPSRJRf XJ^VafP^AM
Section l. Any jjersou going about
from place to place lagging and asking,
or subsisting on charity, snail be taken
and deemed to be a tramp, and shall be
punished by imprisonment at hard labor
in the state paison not more than fifteen
months.
Sec. 2. Any tramp who shall enter any'
dwelling house, or kindle any fire on an t
highway or oir4.be huxi ©t : atioritavy with
out the consent of the owner or occupant
thereof, or shall bo found carrying any
firearm or other dangerous weapon, ot
shall threaten to do any injury to am
person, or to the real or personal estate
of another, shall he punished by impris
onment in the State prison not more than
two years.
Sec. 3. Any wlio shall willfully
and maliciously do guy injury to any
person, or to the rcpl or personal, estate
of another, shall he punished by impris
onment in the State prison not more than
five years.
See. 4. Any act of beggary’ or vagran
cy by any person not a resident of the
state*, shall be evidence that the person
committing the same is a tramp within
the meaning of this chapter.
Sec. 5. Any person, upon view of any
offense described in this chapter, may ap
prehend the offender and take him before
a justice of the peace for examination,
and on his conviction shall he entitled to
a reward of ten dollars therefor, to lx*
paid by the county.
See. 6. The mayor of every city and
the selectmen of every town are hereby
authorized and appoint spe
cial constables, whose duty it shall be to
arrest and prosecute all tramps in their
respective cities and towns.
Sec. 7. This chapter shall not apply to
any female or minor under the age of
seventeen years, nor to any blind person.
Years ago a barefooted hoy floated
down the Susquehanna on an humble
raft, and arrived at Harrisburg, Pa. He
came from the north, and belonged to a
large family; all his worldly goods were
tied up in a little pocket handkerchief.
He sought and obtained employment in a
printing office as an apprentice. From
an apprentice to a journeyman, from a
journeyman to a reporter, from a report
er to :m editor, the printer hoy worked
his way against obstacles which the suf
fering poor only know. The young as
pirant became printer of the state, and
by frugal management was soon enabled
to accomplish the object nearest his heart
—the establishment of his mother in a
home above want. Ilis brothers were his
next care, and in a few years they too,
with his sisters, were independent of the
world; the once barefooted printer boy
was in possession of affluence surrounded
by a young and affectionate family. He
rose in honor and office until he was
elected a United States senator. tfiTbis
man was Simon Cameron.
THE STATE PAIR,
Editor Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
In your strictures on the state fair
meeting, to have been held at the ex
change last Saturday-, the public may he
misled as to the position of this ex
change in reference thereto. I therefore
merely wish to state that the friends of
said fair who called the meeting never
consulted with the exchange, nor did
they ever notify any* officer of the ex
change that they desired to hold a meet
ing there; therefore 1 am^noU"surprised
that so few persons were present, as the
exchange had not even been asked for
the use of their rooms. To-day a com
mittee of the county fair asked the priv
ilege of holding a meeting on Wednes
day, and it was cheerfully granted, as it
would have been also to tjie friends of
the state fair. Yours, respectfully,
. Wm. C. Sibley, Vice-President.
Augusta. February 10, 1879.
Butler’s sarcastic lling at the loyalty
of the claims law applies just as well to
Edmunds’ constitutional amendment.
Where did the south recruit its armies if
all the proved loyalty existed in the
south? Perhaps it was only pretended
loyalty which was touched into activity
by the republican claims law.— Nashville
American.
The Marquis of Lome and Princess
Louise devote an hour to family devotions
each evening, half an hour in the morn
ing and a quarter of an hour at noon.
The marquis reads from the church of
England service, and the princess re
sponds.
The committee on ways and means, de
cided that they have not time at this ses
sion of congress to make an investigation
into the kid-glove case requested by
A. T. Stewart & Company, a request
concurred in by Secretary Sherman.
The medical men of New 'York are
working for severe laws against the adul
teration of food.' Sand, terra alba, blue
clay and muriate of zinc%re unsettled,
and close at a decline.
The heirs of Napoleon the third have
been defeated in their action against the
governmbnt to recover the Chinese mu
seum and arms at the Chateau Pierre
fonds, or their value.
The commercial national bank of Pe
tersbnrg, Va., the last institution of that
kind in the city, have gone into liquida
tion. No losses will result to any one.
The approaching Mardi Gras pageant at
New Orleans will be both attractive and
elegant. Reports of the existence of yel
low fever in the city are denied.
Neal Dow’s latest public appearance is
as the advertiser of a tape-worm remedy.
Warranted by the Boston Herald not to
contain anything intoxicating.
The assistant attorney general of the
post office department has decided that
members of congress elect are not enti
tled to the frank ling privilege.
Five hundred laborers have been
brought into Liverpool. Fourteen hun
dred have arrived from Scotland alone
since the strike began—
The young Prince Napoleon is said to
be dangerously ill at Oiiiselhurt. Ilis ill
ness is attributed to an irregular and dis
sipated life.
The Tennessee senate rejected the
proposition of the bondholders, by a vote
of 12 to 9.
♦
President Grevy will get a salary of
SIOO,OOO a year and 50,000 for household
expenses.
“Between Grant aud Bayard, always
for Bayard,” says Secretary Schun’s pa
per. ' '
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Reports of the domestic infelicity of M.
Grcvv, president of France, are denied.