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A POEM. T© the Hon. Alexander H. Stephen**, ®f Georgia, on the Sixty-Seventh Anniver sary of his Birth. From the Crawfordville Democrat.] We bless the day that gave thee birth, In this Republic free, A land of grandeur, wealth and power, The home of Liberty. To consecrate thy natal day, Vo me, the task is given, And gladly hail the honored Sage. Of three score years and seven. No mother’s love, thou e’er hast known. Nor tender, soothing voice, Thy grief and sorrow to beguile, And make thy heart rejoice; So early orphaned that thy heart Scarce knew when it was riven, But guardian angels led thee on To three score years and seven. Thy tender feet have pressed the thorns, Which in thy pathway grew, But toil hath made thy heart grow strong, And kept thy courage new, Some flowers, too, have blossomed there. Whose fragrance reached to Heaven, And Alls thy soul with rapture now, At three score years and seven. Thy weary frame, thy wasted form, A weight of suffering bears, And yet thy mind, so giant-like, Sustains thy ponderous cares; Supported by the people’s voice, Their trust to thee is given, They know' thy heart is just and true At three score years and seven. The sacrificial host is oft Upon the altar laid, The champions of our rights are called, Rich offerings, to be made, And though our nation decks with tears, The holocaust she’s given. Thy sands of life are running still, At three score years and seven. We do not w'ish to spare thee yet, I’m sure we need thee here, May Owl preserve thy life to us, Through many a coming year; But when He’ll bid thy work to cease, And call thee hence to Heaven. We’ll love thee then as w'e do now, At three score years and seven. „ ~ L. M. Cow an, Fabinee, Ononda-tjo co., W. }’., Feb. 1,, 1879. NIGHT WORK ON MORNING PAPERS. Rev. DeWitt Talmage, in Ins pictures of the “Night Side of New York,” thus discourses on the night work in newspa per offices: “We went in. We went up from edi torial rooms to type setters’ and proof readers’ loft. These are the foundries where the great thunderbolts of public opinion are forged. How pens scratched ! How the types clicked ! How the scis sors cut! llow the wheels rushed, all the world’s news rolling over the cylin der-like Niagara at Table Rock. Great torrents of opinion, of crimes, of acci dents, of destroyed reputations, of avenged character. Who can estimate the mightiness for good or evil of a daily newspaper? Fingers of steel picking oft the end of telegraphic wire facts of reli gion and philosophy and science, and in formation from the four winds of heaven! In 1850 the associated press began to pay $200,000 a year for news, some of the in dividual sheets paying $50,000 extra for dispatches. Some of them, independent of the associated press, with a wire rake gathering up sheaves ol news from all the £reat harvest-fields of the world. It is high time that good men understood that the printing-press is the mightiest engine of all the centuries. High water mark of the printer’s type case shows the ebb or flow of the great oceanic tides of civilization or Christianity. Just think of it! In 1836 all the daily newspapers of New York Issued but 10,000 copies. Now there are 500,000, and taking the ordinary calculation that five people read each paper, two million five hundred thousand people read the daily newspa pers of New York! Nothing more im pressed me in the night exploration than the power of the press. But it is carried on with, oh ! what aching eyes, what ex haustion of health ! I did not find more than one man out of ten who had any thing like brawny health in the great newspaper establishments of New York. Do not begrudge the three or the five cents you give for the newspaper. You buy not only intelligence with that, but you help pay for sleepless nights, and smarting eye-balls, and racked brain, and early sepulchre.” GEORGIA* FOUR PER CENTS. The following is an extract from an Atlanta special to the Louisville Courier- Journal: Treasurer Renfroe announced this morning to your correspondent that he had received orders ror all of the new Georgia four per cents that he cared about selling at present. It is his pur pose to use these four per cents solely for the purpose of replacing the old 7s and 8s as they fall due, and of course he will sell them only as the others fall due. The floating of this loan is a cause of great congratulation in Georgia. It is the first experiment with four per cents made by any Southern State, and the readiness with which they are taken speaks eloquently of restored confidence. Georgia 7s, due in 1892, sold yesterday at A notable point is that the greatest part of Georgia’s late issue of bonds is held by her own people. The new four per cents 9te, in shape and gen eral appearance, the counterpart of greenbacks. The $5 bonds are almost facsimiles of $5 bills. It is believed they will circulate as currency quite freely. Before the issue was made the most searching inquiry was made into the constitutionality of the matter. A decision was obtained from the revenue department to the effect that they were not subject to tax under the revenue law, and the opinions of the ablest law yers were obtained. The Georgia bonds differ from the currency protested in the celebrated Missouri case, in that case, in that each bond has its coupon regularly attached. “The only crime in their is sue,” said a leading lawyer, “if any crime there is, is in the use of small de nominations and small pieces of paper.” By the substitutton of the present issue of four per cents Georgia sves half the iuterest on a half million of eight per cents. The law prescribes that they shall be sold at par. Treasurer Renfroe has received letters from the authorities of various States, asking for information as to the general issue of a series of low rate bonds throughout the South. Tlje city of Atlanta will fund her nutting debt in five per cents. POPULATION OF ENGLISH CITIES. The London Standard gives some in teresting figures concerning the popula tion of the principal cities of England. The inhabitants of London are cited as 3,620,868, the census of 1871 showing 3,254,260. Birmingham has increased from about 344,000 to about 389,000; Manchester from $350,300 to 362,000; I aver pool from 493,500 to nearly *358,500; Leeds from 259,000’ to 312,000. Other towns are enumerated which show about the same ratio of increase, the popula tion of London being equal to about eighteen of them. Liverpool and Glas gow differ by nearly 40,000 in favor of Glasgow. The density of population varies greatly, Liverpool having 103.3 persons per acre, and Norwich 11.4. The others lie between these, Plymouth and Man chester being the only ones of those men tioned who average over 50, London hav ing 48 to the acre. The Belton (Eng.) cotton operatives have Ordered a general strike at all mills where a reduction in wages of ten per cent, may be enforced. They are willing to accept a reduction of five per cent. Tne Liverpool strike is not wholly ended yet, gn was reported. SOME OF THE TRIALS OF TALL MEN. Burlington Hawkeye. Just after I left Honeoye Falls, a tall man sat down in the seat in front of me. I had noticed him standing wearily about on the platforfH, and I pitied him. My heart was full of sympaty for him. lam always sorry for a tall man. Sometimes, when I get before an audience, and have to stand on toy tiptoes to look over the footlights, I wish I was atrifie toller than I am. But this longing is only momen tary. It passes away as soon as I see an unusually toll man. You see, a very tall man Is always pursued, haunted by one unvarying joke. Every short or ordin ary sized man that approaches him, throws back his head, affects to gaze into the heavens with a very painful effort, and asks: “Isn’t it pretty cold up where you are?” Just watch the next short man you see meet a tall one, and see if ihis conundrum doesn’t follow the first greeting. Just watch and see if you do not ask it yourself. And this must be dreadfully wearing on the toll man. 1 have observed that as a rule big men, tall men, are good natured. It is we little fellows who have waspish tempers. So the toll man never resents this venerable joke by sitting down on the man who gets its off. He smiles drearily, and with a weary effort to appear, interested, and tries to look as though he had never heard it before. It must be a perfect tor ture for the toll man to hear this question fifty times a year for thirty or forty years. Sometimes, when I hear a dozen men ask a toll man of my acquaintance this question in ’direct succession, and see him endure it so patiently. I wish I was the Colossus of Rhodes, and a little man, four feet eleven and a half, would come up to me some day when I felt right good, and stare up at me with a grin longer than his body, and ask me “If it wasn’t pretty cold up there?” and I would hold him up by the neck, and I would swing my brazen leg leg until it got the motion and impetus of a walking beam, and then I would kick the little fellow so high that he could read the names of the streets on the street lamps in Uranus, and I would sarcastically shout after him, “No; it’s red hot!” Have toll men no rights that we, who live eight or ten inches nearer the earth, are bound to respect? Among the well known horses de stroyed by the fire at Tattersalls’, New York, Thursday night, was the celebra ted trotting mare Twilight, valued at $10,000; two Norwegian ponies, the property of Mr. Havemeyer, the sugar refiner; Gray Eddie, owned by Mr. Ol cott; Eph. Simmons’ gray mare Girley, that had a record of 2 .34 before it was three years old, and was valued at $3,000; Mr. Simmons also lost a promising four year old filly from Kentucky stock; three mares and one horse of Mr. Briggs; Tom, a black horse, valued at SSOO, and owned by Trimble; a SSOO horse belonging to Mr. Mullins; Mr. Stewart’s valuable black mare, and Hartwell’s SI,OOO mare were also lost. Seventy horses were burned, valued at $55,500. Washington, February 17. —The pre sident has received a large number 01 let ters from distinguished women in all parts of the country, thanking him, in the name of their sex, for approving the act admitting women to practice in the supreme court, and thus extending the sphere of woman’s usefulness. The justi ces of the supreme eourt do not, however, share in this rejoicing, as they once de cided, unanimously, that women were not qualified to practice at their bar, and one of them, at the white house recep tion, Saturday, remarked to some ladies who were quizzing him about it, that they intended to change their consulta tion room into a nursery, where women who wanted to argue cases before them could leave their babies. An outbreak has occurred in Hayti, and the insurgents have proclaimed Gen. Monency Benjamin, president. An en gagement has taken place near San Mi guel, in which the government troops lost thirty-five killed and eighty-nine wounded. The losses of the insurgents are believed to be far greater than this. The president has dispatched a vessel for reinforcements, and when these arrive a decisive battle may be expected. A pe nal code prepared tor the island has given great dissatisfaction, one of the features being a provision that any libelous mat ter admitted into a newspaper may sub ject the editor to five years penal servi tude and flogging. * -4- Aspirants for the stage are not rebuffed in Boston, if their ambition tends toward the variety shows. The Boyloston mu seum advertises that “any lady or gen tleman desirous of adopting the stage as a profession can appear on any Friday night;” and the promise is made that amateurs who appear shall receive pres ents, consisting of watches, rings, over coats, tons of coals, barrels of flour, dress patteans and bonnets. # Ought not the rascals who listened for a moment to the propositions for the sale of the southern returning boards,- to be severely punished, seven to eight? They didn’t purchase the good citizens who of fered to sell out; but it is just to those es timable returning officials, to permit those who decline to purchase them to go un punished? Let those respected boards be vindicated. —Hartford Times. In one of the Detroit schools the other flay a class in English history were being questioned by the teacher about Henry VIII., and she finally asked: “Did Anne of Cleves, Henry’s fourth wife, die a natural death?” There was an.awful si lence for half a minute, and then one miss stammered out: “No, ma’am—she was divorced 1” At last the Millerites having been aroused to a burning sense of duty. One Samuel C. Parkyson of Birmingham, England, prophesies that the final fire works are to be touched off July 19, 1880, and the w orld knocked to flinders. This is harrowing. We don’t see how the Presidential cam pain will pan out.—V. 0. Times. The late Pope Pius IX., it is said, never allowed a lady to kiss his foot at his aiulien<jps, always giving her his hand. Pope Leo XIII., on the contrary, sees ladies go through the ceremony with calm indifference. The steamer Ward brings news of the death of F. E. Frey, American consul at the Bay islands. His funeral on the 11th at Ruatan was attended by the governor and other prominent officials. — : ♦ Sporting men in Connecticut are alarm ed at the discovery that there is upon the statue books a provision that every horse used in races on which any w ager is to be laid or any purse or stake offered shall be forfeited to the state. It is reported that the king of Burmah has murdered all the royal princes and their families, and restored the former despotic government. Strange to say, there are not enough lawyers in the lower house of the North Carolina legislature to make a judiciary committee. LITCHFIEL I) H OUSE~ (Acwortli, Georgia.) E. L. LITCHFIELD, Proprietor. C CONVENIENT TO THE DEPOT, AND ITS y tables supplied with the very best the mark et affords. Legal AflTertlsementL Bartow County Sheriff’s Sales. WILL BE SOLD before the court house door in Cartersville, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in March next, 1879, between the legal sale hours the following described property, to-wit: Lots of land Nos. 126, 120 and 145, each lot con taining 160 acres more or less, all lying in the 16th district and 3rd section of Bartow county, Georgia. I a-vied ou and will be sold as the prop erty of G. W. Scipie to satisfy one Bartow' Su perior Court fl. fa. in favor of ’A. M. Northcutt vs.,G. W. Sciple. Levy made by \V. W. Rich, former sheriff. * ’ * Also, at the same time and place, one hoisting engine and fixtures. Levied on and will be sold as the property of the Bartow' Iron Company, to satisfy a tax fl’. fa. issued by the Tax Collector of Bartow county for tax due the state of Geo. and Bartow' couuty vs. said Bartow' Iron Company, for the year 1878. Said property will tie sold be fore the court house door in Cartersville and de livered to the purchaser at Bartow Iron Works station on the W. & A. li. R., where said engine is at this time. Also, at the same time and place, one house and lot in the city of Cartersville, Georgia, situ ated as follows: bounded on the east by Bartow street, w r est by property of L. Tumlin’s estate, north by Fannie Ayer’s, south by Jeffrey Milner’s lot. Levied on anti will be soli! as the property of Ellis Patterson to satisfy two Justice’s Court fi. fas. issued from the Justice’s Court of the 822nd district, G. M.; one in favor of Erwin, Stokeley & Cos., and one in favey of Stokeley & Williams vs. Ellis Patterson. Levy made and returned by J. W. Hill, L. C.- Also, at the same time and place, lots of land Nos. 253 and 254 in the 22nd district and 2nd sec tion of Bartow couuty, Georgia, each containing 160 acres more or less. Levied on and will be sold as the properly of defendant in li. fa., Aurelia Vaughn, executrix of James Vaughu, deceased, and in the hands of Wm.T. Wofford, adminis trators! James Vaughn, deceased, to be admin istered. Said lots in possession of Wm.T. Wof ford, administrator de bonus non , with the will annexed, by his tenant John S. Upshaw. Levied on and will be sold to satisfy one Bartow' Su perior Court ti. fa. in favor of John W. Wofford vs. Aurelia Vaughn, executrix of James Vaughn, deceased. J. S. Upshaw' in possession and waive written notice. Also, at the same time and place, the following tract of land: Nos. 118, 757, 758, 827, 828, 830, 831, 898, 899, 902, 903, 970,971, 972, 973, 975,976, 977, 1041, 1042, 1043, 1047, 1048, 1114, 1175, 1185, 1199, 1268, the east half of lot No. 1040; all of said lots situated, lying and being in the 4th district and 3rd sec tion of Bartow' county, Georgia. Also lots of land Nos. 864, 936, 937, and thirty-six acres of lot No. 938 in the 21st district and 2d section of said county, excepting all those portions of the above’named lots lying south ana w'est of a cer tain line, commencing at a wet weather branch at the north corner of lot No. 977, running down said branch until it strikes a diten, thence down said ditch until it strikes the centre of Pumpkin vine creek, thence down the centre of said creek until it strikes a ditch on the east side of said ereek. thence from the mouth of said ditch to the crossing place of said ditch, thence in a straight line to the opposite side of the field at the edge of the woods where an old road enters the woods on the east side of said field, amounting to thir teen hundred acres of land more or less, the w hole known as the Bartow Furnace or Bartow Iron Works property with all the rights, mem bers and appurtenances to the said land in any w ise appertaining or belonging. 'Levied on as the property of H. McNeal by virtue of and to satisfy one mortgage li. fa. issued from Bartow' Superior Court in favor of Elbert P. Cook against said H. McNeal. JAMES KENNEDY, Sheriff. A. M. FRANKLIN, Deputy Sheriff. City Marshal’s Sales, WILL be sold, before the court house door, in the city of Cartersville, Bartow county, Georgia, between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in March, 1879, the follow ing prop erty, to-wit: Thirty acres, more or less, of woodland, lying between Main and Market streets, and west of Mrs. F P Gray’s l'esidence; levied upon as the property of J C Young, to satisfy one city tax fi fa for 1878. Also, one store house and lot on corner Mar ket street and public square; levied on as the property of Thompson & Scott, to satisfy one city tax 11 fa for 1878. Also, one dwelling house and lot on Church street, bounded on the east by Dr J A Jackson’s lot, west by Mrs A E Foster’s lot, and north by R C Robert’r lot; levied on as the property of J A Thompson, to satisfy one city tax fi fa for 187.8. Also, one house and lot, three acres, more or less, fronting on Tennessee street and north of A T A term an’s; levied on as the property of S T McCandless, to satisfy one city tax ft fa for the year 1878. Also, seven acres of land, more or less, lying on the south side of Rrwlond’s ferry road aiid west of J E llall; levied cm as the property .of T F Brewster, to satisfy one city tax fi la for the year 1878. Also, house and lot on south-west corner of Bartow and Carter streets, levied ou as property of Cato Bomer, to satisfy one city tax tl fa for the year 1878, Also, forty acres of land between Tennessee and Gilmer streets; levied on as the property of 31 rs. Francis Dobbs, to satisfy one city tax ii fa for the year 1878. Also, house and lot on Stonewall street, now occupied by C Tompkins and Miss Emily Baker, levied on as the property of Miss Emily R Ba ker, to satisfy one city tax fi fa for 1878. Also, one house and lot on Main street. Lev ied on as the property of Peter Marsh to satisfy one city tax li. fa. for 1878. Bounded on nortli by house and lot of J. P. Hood, on south by Main street, on east by an alley, on w’est by the Foste House. Also, one vacant lot on Erw in street, fronting west and bounded on East by offices of T. H. Baker and W. T. Wofford, on north by lot known ae the State lot, and on south by Ricks House lot. Levied on as the property of Mrs. C. M. Marsh to satisfy one city tax fi. fa for 1878. Also, one brick store house fronting east on public square and bouid on west by Erwin street, north by store now occupied by W. W. Rich, and on south by Planters’ A Miners’ Bank. Levied on as the property of Mrs. Maggie Thom as to satisfy one city tax li. fa. for 1878. Also, one’ dwelling house and lot, bounded on the east by property of Tumlin’s estate, on west by W. & A. R. R., on north by vacant lot, and on south by an alley, and known as the property of J no. D.’Wofford. Levied on as the property of Jno. D. Wofford to satisfy one city tax fi. fa. for 1878. Also, one house and lot, bounded on east by Erwin street, on west by Skinner street, on north by Jno. Foster’s brick yard, and on south by .lot of Hunnicutt. Levied on as the property of M. R. Stauseil to satisfy two city tax li. las. ’one for 1877 and the other for 1878. Also, one house and lot on Howard street, now occupied by James Young, col’d. Levied on as the property ol James Young to satisfy one city tax fi. fa. foa 1878. Also, one house and lot on Tennessee street, known as the property of Alfred McGee. Lev ied on as the property of Alfred McGee to sat'isfy one city tax fi. fa. for the year 1878. Also, one'house and lot on Main street where Howard Jones now resides. Levied on as the property of Hew-ard Jones to satisfy' one city tax fl. fa. for the year 1878. J. A. GLADDEN, City Marshal. Commissioners’ Sale. J. Nelson Tappan, Trustee, &c. vs. The Cherokee Hail road Company and others. In Equity, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia. By virtue of a decree in the cause above stated, the undersigned commission ers, duly appointed by said court, will, on the Fourth day of March, 1879, it being the first Tues day in said month, before the court-house door in the city of Cartersville, in the county of Bar tow, Georgia, duriug the usual hours of public sales, sell at public outcry, the following prop erty of the defendant, The Cherokee Railroad Company, to-wit: Its railroad, situate in the counties of Bartow and Polk, Georgia, from its terminus at Cartersville, in said county of Bartow, to the terminus at Prfor’s station, on the Selma, Rome ami Dalton Railroad, in the said county of Polk, with its franchises, rights, privileges and immu nities, including its road-bed, bridges, trestles and iron and its locomotives, cars, trucks, with all its appurtenances, and all its other propertv, real, personal or mixed; this sale not to include any peronal property not now in the possession of Daniel S. Prjntup, the Receiver in said cause, or money or'choses iu action. Terms—Five thousand dollars to lie paid down immediately at the close of the sale and the bal ance of the* purchase money to be paid within thirty days from the day of sale, with interest from the day of sale at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, and to be paid in the city of New. York or the city of Atlamta, Georgia. If the cash payment of five thousand dollars is not maile promptly the commissioners will be at liberty immediately on the same day at the same place to re-sell said property under the same terms of sale; and if the deferred payment is not made within the time above specified all money paid on the purchase and rignt of the purchaser to the property sold or possession will be forfeit ed, anu the commmissioners will have the right to take possession of said property and to re-sell the same. Said sale will be made subject to confirmation by said court on the report of the commissioners. Possession will be given as soon its the purchase money is all paid. Titles will be made by the commissioners un der and by approval of said court, when all of the purchase money is paid. * DANIEL S. PRINTUP, WILLIAM F. DRAKE, jar.2-td Commissioners. BARTOW HOUSE, (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 his hotel, is now prepared to accommodate the traveling public In tbe 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. seps. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. THE “CENTRAL HOTEL,” ADAIRSVILLE, Georgia—a three-story brick building; large yards, garden aud orchard attached. Address J, C. MARTIN, decW-tt AUanYvitUs G. WILCOX MT| 0 EK - STjfv’. -m FACTOR/rs UN' ul WEST MERIDEN CONN F. L. FREYER, General Agent for the South. The Leading Organ of America. RAPIDITY OF ACTION, VOLUME, PURITY AND SWEETNESS OF TONE! I invite a critical examination of every por tion of the Instruments. They must be seen to be appreciated. Agents Wanted Throughout Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida. KRANICH & BACH, C. L. CORHAM & CO., UNRIVALLED PIANOS! RAVEN & CO.’S (Late Raven & Bacon) Square and Upright Piano. The best 'medium priced piano in AMERICA. Avoid being “taken in” on cheap and worthless instruments and by “roam ing agents.” Buy only from a reliable and re sponsible dealer, under whose warrantee you will be safe. As General Southern Agent and buying for caMt only. I can sell you at “Agent’s wholesale factory prices,” and by buying from me direct, you will get the benefit’of the agent’s commission and save you $25 to $l5O ou each in strument. Every instrument fully warranted by the manufacturer, and myself, giving you a double guarantee for five years. I will put any instrument on trial a your house, and if it does not prove perfectly sat isfactory, will take it away again, without any expense, risk or trouble to you. PIANOS AND ORGANS rented, tuned and repaired, and satisfaction guaranteed. Illustra ted Catalogues, fully describing and showing the external appearance of each style of instru ments, mailed Tree on application. All orders by mail to me at Marietta, or Atlanta, or left with Col. A. M. Foute, Cartersville, will meet with prompt attention. Be sure to write, er see me, if you want to get the best instrument ter the least money, cash or on time, At Wholesale Factory Prices. Fiist-class organs at SSO and upwards. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Correspondence solicited. h\ Jj. FREYER. Marietta, or Atlanta, Ga., No. 28 Whitehall Street. [octlo-13m.J 1879. THE 1879. ATLANTA DAILT_ CONSTITUTION. TTTE have few promises to make for the Con \ V stitution for 1879. The paper speaks for itself, and upon that ground the managers offer 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 be 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 bv mail and tele graph. 11. Its telegraphic service is fuller thau that of aiiy 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 day. 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 all current themes. V. “Bill Arp,” the most genial of humorists, will continue to contribute to its columns. “Ola 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, aud its columns contain everything of iu 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 • eral 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. You Can Have Free! A SPECIMEN COPY OF THE DETROIT FREE PRESS. It is the most entertaining journal iu the world. Its literary standard is of the highest character. Its poems and sketches are universally copied and read. It is witty, gossipy, entertaining and instruct ive. It sparkles from the first page to the last. It surpasses in correspondence from all parts of the country. Its war sketches by noted writers are contribu tions to history from* both sides, and the South is fully represented. A THOUSAND LADIES! In reality many more, the best women in the land, contribute to “THE HOUSEHOLD.” It is a supplement which accompanies The Free Press every week. There is nothing like it. Cordial admiration and love express the sentiments which readers entertaifl for it. Kindly sympathy, good advice, information and instruction upon many topics, characterize its contents. FOR YOUR OWN SAKE Try The Free Press for.a year. MAKE HOME HAPPY. Nothing will so commend itself to the family; Or afford as much genuine eujoyment Asa perusal of THE DETROIT FREE PRESS. The rates of subscription are Two dollars a year. Send to The Free Press Cos., Detroit, Mich. TT can make money taster at work for us than v) at anything else. Capital not required; we will start you. sl2 per day at home made by the industrious. Men, womeu, boys aud girls want ed everywhere to-work for us. Now is the time. Cossly outfit and terms free. Address TRUE & CO.‘ Augusta, Maine. PLAYED OUT ! -JtJ YES! That is just What’s the Matter with Thousands of PIANOS and ORGANS Scattered throughout the South that children arc daily forced to practice on, regardless of the fact that'neither pleasure nor progresss can be got from an antiquated, worn out relic of the days when their mothers “took music.” If you want your children to learn fast, and become musi sician, get them elegant instruments, with the improvements of the present age, and you will be surprised at their rapid advancement. Superb Instruments from Old and Perfectly Reliable Makers are now sold so extremely low and on such easy terms that all creation can buy. LIJDDEN & BATES, SAVANNAH, GA., The Great Wholesale Piano and Organ Dealers of the South, now sell instruments from all leading makers direct to purchasers on the Vo A gents, No Commission Plan, at Manu facturers Factory Prices , thereby giving pur chasers the large commissions heretofore paid agents. From SSO to SIOO actually saved in the purchase o# an instrument under this new sys tem. Write for particulars. We can’t be un dersold. 7 Oct. Pianos. $135 1 4 Stop Organs, $55 7% Oct. Pianos, 145 | 6 Stop Organs, 65 7>i Oct. Pianos, 160 9 Stop Organs, 65 Gr’d Sq’e Pianos, 378 |l2 Stop Organs, 75 Mason & Hamlin's Organs, Four Sets Reeds, 9 Stops only SIOO. Send North and be Swindled ! Not by reputable makers like Steinwav, Chick ering, Steek, Knabe, but by bogus manufacturers who advertise S9OO Pianos' for $260; $650 Pianos for' i75; $270 Organs for $65. Deception and fraud are in all such absard offers. Buy instru ments made by old and always reliable manu facturers like* Cnickering & Sons, Mathushek Piano Company, Hallett & Davie, Knabe & Cos., Mason & Hamlin, and you will have those that will last a lifetime and please you better every day. No Bogus or Beatty Trash Sold from our house. The maker’s names are on all instruments we sell and full information as to quality, durability and comparative value will be cheerfully given. To aid purchasers fn making a judicious selection and secure for them the finest instruments for the least possible price is our invariable rule, and to this we owe our immense success and increasing trade. TJTTJV’ we can sell good instruments so cheap, W 111 Because we are WHOLESALE DEAL ERS (not merely agents, representing manufac turers in Seven States and selling more instru ments yearly than all other Southern Dealers combined. A small wholesale profit on each in strument is all we want. STAND PROM UNDER aiul let everybody understand once for all, now and forever, that LTJDDEN and BATES can't and won't he, undersold. Count us in for all Piano and Organ Wars, and no matter where the prices find bottom we are R I Gr II T T H A K ! You hear us now. Come and C us when you get time. LIJDDEN & BATES, july 18-3 m. Savannah, Ga. E. J. Hale & Son’s STEPHENS’ HISTORY A Compendium of the History of the United States, For Schools and Colleges. By Hon. ALEX. H. STEPHENS. (513 pp. 12m0.) 17 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK. “The pith and marrow of our history.”— Ex- President Fillmore. “Straightforward, vigorous, interesting and im pressive.”—y. Y. Christian Union. “Its tone calm and judicial; its style clear and good. We recommend it to be' read by all Northern men.”— Boston Courier. “A work of high excellence; well adapted to supply a long felt want in our country.”—Con nect icutt School Journal, (Hon. If'. C. Fouler, L. L. D.) “Worthy of high praise. It will of necessity challenge attention everyw here.”— JY. Y. 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L C NEBINGER, Manager. • . W. H. WIKLE & CO., Agrents. |x A J CARTERSVILLE High S c h.*o 01. YTTILL BE OPEN FOR THE ADMISSION V of pupils, of both sexes, on MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1878, And continue six months. Tution, from $2 to $4 per month, payable monthly. Patrons are ear nestly desired to enter their children at the be ginning of the session. Pupils prepared for anv class in college. R. JOHNSTON, Principal. FOOTE’S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS. y<m omeor FOR SALK BY D. w CURBY. A NEW ENTERPRISE ! jar TK!2 CARTERSVILLE SHOE STORE, .m (BANK BLOCK, WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE., A FULL ASSORTMENT Of HOMEMADE ani EASTERN “BOOTS ant SHOES KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND. BEST GOODS AT LOW PRICES I ALSO KEEP ALL kinds OF Leather, Shoe Findings, ANYTHING NEEDED in the SHOE-MAKING HT SlNK^s* Boots anti Slioes of any Quality or Style, Made to order, and all work warranted. ocm-sm 1 - Moon Ac Cos. BEBKSHIBE HOBS —AND COTSWOLD SHEEP BRED AND FOR SALE BY TOM CRUTCHFIELD, (At “Amnicola,” near Chattanooga, Tennessee.) WHOSE SIRE AND DAM WERE BRED BY IiEBER HUMPHREY, OF Xl England, stands at head of my herd of Berkshires. “TORONTO,” sire of my brood sows—bred by Philpot, of Middle Tennessee, was slaughtered last season, weighing 705 pounds ! My Sheep are from home bred and imported ewes, and sired by imported rams being bred and reared in tne South, are acclimated. Thev average about nine pounds cadi, annually of clean wool. *&PURCHASERS NEAR HOME SAVE RAILROAD CHARGES AND RISKS. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. ' tapr’2l. ETOWAH FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP. B. J. LOWMAN & BRO., Proprietors, MANUFACTURERS OF Sorghum Mills and Evaporators, HOLLOW WARE, GRATES, MANTLES, ETC. All Kinds of Iron and Brags Castings, and Repairing done with. Neatness and Dispatch. TO THE PUBLIC WE WOULD SAY THAT WE ARE THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED IN our business and do not hesitate to guarantee satisfaction in all work by us. and we use noitung but the best material and employ none but the best workmen. Cartersville, Georgia, July 18,* 1878. BAKER & HALL, HABDWABE DEALEBS, (Cartersville, Ga.,) Keep constantly on hand ALL KINDS OF PLOWS, ro<. KET KNIVES AND TAIILE M ILLRV, THE CELEBRATED WHITEWATER WAGON, Phietoiis, Carriages, Busies ami Spring lVagrons Cheap, Rater ani Leather Belting. Corn tellers Straw Cntters, Carpenters’ Tools C n |On mo All IWe have anything from the point of a needle to the mouth ome Ny il c . wUiilfcJ Mil . of a cannon, sans sonci. W. C. BAKER, julylS . H. H. HALL, ■ “MU SI C II A II CII A RMS! Do you want to buy a Piano or Organ of any first-class maker? ' Do you want to buy a Piano or Organ on installments? Do you want to buy Sheet Music, Books, Strings’ etc.? Do you want to exchange an old Piano or Organ for anew one? Do you want to rent a Piano or Organ? Do you want to have your Piano or Or gan carefully tuned or repaired? Send yoiir orders to C. W. LANGWORTHY, ROME, GEORGIA, Only Agent for B. SHONINGER & CO.’S INSTRUMENTS, B. SHONINGER & CO.’S INSTRUMENTS, B. SHONINGER & CO.’S INSTRUMENTS, And for other first-c)as3 Instruments, for GEORGIA, ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE. GEORGIA, ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE. GEORGIA, ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE. The undersigned will fill all orders for Instruments, Books, Sheet Music, or for Tuning Repairing, left at the Tennessee House or The Free Press office. Every Instrument—the die ape or highest priced, FULLY WARRANTED FOR SIX YEARS. FULLY WARRANTED FOR SIX YEARS. FULLY WARRANTED FOR SIX YEARS. ’ SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Address C. W. LANCWORTHY. nov23, ’76-3y. ROME, GEORGIA WITH ESIEb cjml? Es for STEAM.HAN|SsAfL* —GEARING & CENEhAu^^^ J W FffJf a/jfUJ/ltM & PME L/ST. Cheapest Best. HOWARD HYDRAULIC CEMENT. MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON, BARTOW COUN TY, GEORGIA. EQUAL to the best imported Portland Ce ment. Send for circular. Try this before buying elsewhere. Refers by permission to Mr. A. J. West, Presi dent Cherokee Iron Company, Cedartown, Ga., w ho has built a splendid dam, (cost $7,000.) using this cement and pronouncing it the best he ever used. Also refer to Gen. Wm. Mcßae, Superin tendent W. & A. Railroad Company, who has been using it for piers of bridges and'culverts on his railroad, for two years; also to Capt. .Tolm Postell, C. E. Also to John Stone, Superinten dent of Bartow’ Iron Company, Bartow, Ga., who has built several large reservoirs with it, which are perfect; to Messrs. Smith, Son & Bro., of Rome, who have made a splendid pavement with it; to Capt. M. B. Grant, or Mr. Gilbert Butler, of Savannah, who have used it w ith great success in stucco work, or Major Brvan, of Savannah, Mr. J. J. Cohen, of Rome, to Messrs. Grant, Jacksonville, Ala., who have used it for fountains, pavements, fish ponds, cel lar floors, etc - T. C. Douglass, Superintendent East River Bridge, New York, who pronounces it equal to the best Imported Portland Cement. Address G. H. WARING, Kingston, Ga. sepl2-ly, ESSEX CHOICE, he “Old Reliable” Barber, STILL CONTINUES THE TONSOItIAL ART. He is ntxw running four chairs—three on the east side of the square, and one over the store ©f J. A. Stephens, West Main street. This latter shop is in charge of William Johnson, an excel lent young barber. As heretofore, Essex guar antees satisfaction to his customers, ana will leave nothing undone to please them. Call on G99GX CHOICE-. I PAY POR YOUR PAPER! Everybody can do so if they wiii. IN ORDER TO GIVE ALL A CHANCE TO take THE FREE PRESS, we announce that ! we will take in payment: WHEAT AND FLOUR. CORN AND MEAL, BACON AND LARD, BUTTER, EGGS AND CHICKENS. WOOD AND LIGHT WOOD, * . OR ANY OTIIEft KIND OF Country Produce. Those who are taking the paper and have not paid up can settle in the same way. Those who w’ill not pay in any way will please notify us. Our terms are cash in acfvanoe and we wait the monnv or its equivalent.
