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THE FREE PRESS.
An Independent Democratic Journal.
€. 11. C. WILLINGHAM. Editor.
The Free Press is an Independent Democrat
ic Journal, opposed to all Rings, Cliques and
Combinations, of whatever sort, organizedto de
eat the will of the people in all public matters
or interests in w hatever shape presented.
t'artersvillc, Georgia, June 12, 1879.
THE EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
The great blunder of the democrats in
congress, we fear, was making it neces
sary for the calling of the present extra
session. It has not been marked by a
single act of public good, but, instead, it
has lieen characterized throughout by
partisan wrangling and the stirring up of
sectional animosities, it was known by
the democrats that they had not the re
quisite two-thirds majority to make their
legislative measures effective over the
veto of the president. Congress may re
muiu in session till the beginning of the
regular session in December, and nothing
will be accomplished on their present
line. All the discussion had has been
with a view of promoting partisan in
terests for next year’s campaign. The
real interests of the country have been
neglected to this end. The democrats
have won all the capital they can make
for this session in their efforts to rid the
statutes of obnoxious and unconstitution
al laws. They have shown the country
a desire to repeal these laws affecting the
purity of the ballot-box. The best thing
they can do is to vote the usual govern
ment supplies and return to their con
stituents and tell them what they have
endeavored to do, and failed to do on ac
count of the partisan obstinacy of the
president and his party.
To refuse to vote supplies for the main
tenance of the government because of the
inability of the democrats to pass the ap
propriation acts with the “riders” would
be, in our humble judgment, a serious
blow to democratic success in the coming
presidential campaign. It is just what
the republican leaders would most desire.
In such an event, they would go to the
people next year and tell them that the
democrats failed to destroy the govern
ment by making war upon it, but that
they have endeavored to starve it out by
refusing to vote supplies to maintain it,
and that cry would arouse such an indig
nation among the ignorant masses of the
north as would crush all hope of demo
cratic success. Upon the other hand, by
pursuing a more conservative policy by
voting the necessary supplies, the de
mocracy would go to the country with
the evidence upon record that, while our
congressmen did all they could to re
lieve free government of obnoxious laws
1 hat perverted the freedom of the ballot
box, they had not failed to maintain the
government. The espionage of military
authority over the ballot-box is a galling
and diabolical outrage upon free elec
tions, and is sufficient to arouse every
lover of liberty to a realization of the
danger of centralization; but when a
filing cannot be done as we desire it, it is
best to wait and remit the question to the
great popular tribunal, the people, who
have the power to overthrow the party
that seeks to deprive them ol their rights.
Then, we say it is best for the demo
cratic congressmen not to give the repub
lican party a stick with w hich to break
lheir heads next year by refusing to
vote the necessary supplies for the main
tenance of the government. If good
could be accomplished by congress re
maining in session, we should say let it
be so, but we see no good to fol
low’. The president and his advised
must back down before the appropria
tion bills can be made law in their pres
ent shape. That they have evinced an
unmistakeable determination not to do.
Their purpose is to excite the democrats
to some rash act of indiscretion in order
to save the republican party from defeat
next fall. They hope to goad them to it.
To effect their purpose Blaine is made
t lie leader in the senate. lie seeks every
opportunity to arouse the indignation of
the democrats by false representations of
the southern people. lie keeps Senator
Hill upon his feet pretty constantly. Mr.
Hill has met him very successfully so
far. We only wish Mr. Hill to continue
prudent and wise and not allow himself
to be ensnared into lash discussion by
t he wily viper from Maine.
It was hoped that the extra session of
congress w ould do something for the re
lief of the people, without which it w ill
make but little difference with the coun
try, as to its welfare, whether w r e have
bayonets at the polls or not. The people
can lie no more degraded as the slaves of
the money power than they are the vic
tims of bayonet espionage at the ballot
box. Both are bad enough, and both
should arouse the most serious popular
apprehension as to the rights and liber
ties of the people and their welfare and
prosperity.
We hope, therefore, that the democrats
in congress will vote the necessary ap
propriations for the support of the gov
ernment, return to their constituents and
leave what they cannot now accomplish
to the more decisive arbitrament of the
ballot-box. That the people will act in
the interest of public liberty there can be
no doubt. They only need to be edu
cated from the busting and by the press
to arouse them to action. Much depends
upon such a policy in securing entire
democratic supremacy in the federal gov
ernment in the presidential campaign of
next year. Let our congressmen, there
fore, be as “wise as serpents and harm
less as doves,”
.''some of the Colquitt press stoutly
maintain that it is too early to discuss the
gubernatorial question, but they never
let an opportunity pass to boost their fa
vorite. Sunday school celebrations will
!>e popular from now on. They afford a
wide fleld lor speech-making and mixing
with the people.
+
As soon as the Rome Courier can be
quieted, the late congressional campaign
will be ended. We are anxious to close
up the business, as the heated term is
npb i us.
“ WHO A RE TRUE DEMOCRAT*
We did not say that the editor of the
Courier was not fit to he an editor. Any
body can be an editor. What we did say
in substance w as that if the editor of the
Courier expected to win converts to his
way of thinking by his course in referring
indirectly to independent democrats as
not being “true democrats,” that he had
mistaken his mission, and that he could
not be a political evangelist. His sneer
ing manner of referring to independent
democrats as not being “true democrats”
exhibits very bad temper, to say the least
of it. It is unjust to honest men who
choose to differ with the editor of the
Courier,, not upon principles, but merely
in matters of policy or expediency in sus
taining certain principles. He is for
standing to what is called “organized”
action, dictated by a few’ office-seekers
and thimble-riggers and shysters who as
sume to be the democratic party. The
independent democrats propose to cast
their ballots for those men for office
whom they believe to be best fitted for
office, a question to be decided by each
voter for himself. The latter are truly
democrats. True democracy is the voice
of the people as expressed at the ballot
l>ox according to the will of the ma
jority.
But the editor of the Courier does not
seem to have either the capacity or the
candor to understand or admit that a
democrat can be independent enough to
act for himself. If he does so, and out
side of what the said editor considers the
party, he is to be pronounced not a “true
democrat.” We tell the editor of the
Courier there are just as “true democrats”
as he who claim the inalienable right of
an American citizen to vote as they
please, and will continue to do so in
spite of dictation or the lash of the “or
ganized” whip. Nor do we claim all the
true democrats to act with the independ
ents. There are “true democrats” in the
“organized” wing of the party. They,
of course, believe organization the best
policy to be pursued in support of demo
cratic principles. As they think so let
them act accordingly as honest men.
Those who think and act differently are
as “true democrats” as the editor of the
Courier or anybody else.
Now, we would say to our Rome co
temporary its efforts to ostracise “true
democrats” for being independent isn’t
w orth a row’ of headless pins. Its spite
ful paragraphs, malignantly expressed,
show great weakness and a want of a
proper appreciation of the more power
ful argument of reason and persuasion.
When the editor refers to independent
democrats as not being “true democrats”
he merely excites their contempt for his
want of candor and disgust for his puer
ile assumacy. When they remember his
ardent desire for a postofflce appointment
under Ha} r s they feel that political ostra
cism from such a source is not w orthy of
attention. We think so, too, but as the
editor of the Courier continues to wield
the pen for the public, we are simply
trying to learn him something that may
lead him to be a very able editor in the
future.
No, Courier editor, you are not the
only “true democrat” on the prass of the
seventh district, nor are you a Magnus
Appollo to determine who are “true
democrats.” Your beard has not grown
long enouge for you to become a patiarch
in the party, and, therefore, your mere
ipse dixit neither makes nor unmakes
“true democrats.”
THE OHIO NOMIX A TIONS.
Governor Bishop, of Ohio, on Wednes
day of last week telegraphed to General
Ewing expressing the belief that the
democratic ticket would sweep Ohio, and
statino- tn* a U h* B friends were enthusi
astic in Ewing’s The New
York Herald thinks the nomin!* on ot
General Ewing is the strongest the dem
ocrats could possibly have made, predicts
that he will make the separate greenback
ticket a nulity, and says Mr. Foster, the
republican candidate, ‘‘instead of having
a quiet walk over the course, will need
all the assistance he can find to save him
from defeat.” The Philadelphia Press
(Rep.) says “ the ticket is pre-eminently
military, and, as far as.the individual
character and standing of the nominees
is concerned, is, perhaps, the strongest
that could have been selected.”
Secretary Thurman, Wednesday night
telegraphed to General Rice to accept
the second place. He said: “I am de
lighted with the ticket; it is a strong one
and will win.” Soon after receiving the
news of his nomination General Ewing
sent by a messenger the news of his nom
ination to his wife, who is in Washing
ton. She replied : “Your news is stale.
Over twenty have called already to con
gratulate me, and now do you come
home and congratulate me yourself.”
The Washington Star says the action of
the Ohio democrats is looked upon as an
act of sagacity which surprised even the
republicans; or, as Secretary Sherman
puts it, “I did not think the Ohio demo
crats would place in nomination such a
respectable ticket.” Gen Garfield says
the ticket is a strong one.
Grand preparations are progressing for
the celebration of the twenty-first festi
val of the North American Saengerbund,
which will be held in Cincinnati from
to-day until the 15th inst. The chorus
will number at least twelve hundred
voices, and many eminent soloists have
been engaged, and the programme is re
markable for work of the finest character.
The silver bill was killed in the senate
Tuesday by a vote upon Mr. Coke’s res
olution to discharge the finance commit
tee from further consideration of the
measure and declaring it before the sen
ate for action. This was accomplished
by the aid of democratic votes. Ihe
vote on taking up the resolution was
yeas 21, nays 22.
The present plan of the caucus demo
crats regarding the appropriation bills is
about the same as suggested by Felton
some time since. This must be heart
rending to the organs.— Dalton Headlight.
Why don’t the Rome Courier howl a
great sour-belch howl and the Dalton
CHtfsQm eefcn the stfund thereof^
NOT FOR GOVERNOR.
Our reades will excuse us for reproduc
ng the following paragraph from the
Griffin Sun :
Some of the papers of the state press have sug
gested our friend, C. H. C. Willingham, of the
Cartersville Free Press, for governor. As lit
tle as some people may think of it, as good an
editor as he would not likely make a bad gov
ernor.
We have seen several of the sugges
tions referred to, but intended to say
nothing about them. Indeed, we should
not now do so but for the fact that our
neighbor of the Express stuck the matter
right under our nose last week. Of course,
we understand these suggestions are
meant as bits of pleasantry than as mat
ters of real earnest. But we shall take
the occasion, however, to say a few words
about office-seeking in which we believe
all true men w ill agree with us.
In the first place, there are too many
men w anting office, many of them whol
ly unfit to fill office. We desire no office,
and if we did we know of none we are
competent to fill as it should be. We
think it the duty of any competent man
to fill an office whenever called upon so
to do by his fellow-citizens; but when
men, wholly incompetent, are eternally
before the people as candidates for office
they become public nuisances and ought
to be “sat dowm upon” at the ballot-box
in short order. It is far better that men
should wait to be called by the people be
fore determining for themselves their fit
ness and capacity for office.
No, friends, w r e are not for governor.
We would not accept the position if elect
ed to it, if such a thing were even possi
ble, for the reason w T e know ourself to be
wholly incapable of meeting its responsi
bilities. Our mission is to aid in the se
lection of a good governor, and w r e shall
certainly, put in full time on that if we
live.
The democratic address prepared by
Proctor Knott is to be withheld to aw’ait
events. The situation may change at
any time so as to call for modification in
the document, which, w’e understand, is
decidedly peppery. In any event, it will
not see the light until just before final
adjournment.
Mr. Beecher, at Montreal, praised the
Marquis of Lome very much, and said
he (Beecher) had the honor of a personal
acquaintance with his (Lome’s) father
and mother. The marquis, when his
turn to speak came, never alluded to Mr.
Beecher.
The Atlanta Dispatch comes up to our
fullest expectations as a live, newsy and
interesting paper, as expressed in this
paper two w eeks ago. It is conducted
with consummate ability and is rapidly
growing popular. We wish it every
success. Give the paper a trial.
The Sandersville Courier, of this
w eek, was received too late for us to re
ply to its editorial* under the caption of
“a talk w ith with uncle Charley.” Da
vis is determined to stop the manufac
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors.
Dr. Felton’s election is assured by an
| increased majority next year. There is
‘ but one paper stoutly opposing him now.
We refer to the Rome Courier. Once in
| a w hile the Dalton Citizen heaves a dys
| peptic belch in the Courier way.
The extra session of congress is so far
a failure. It has accomplished nothing
for the financial relief of the people. It
' ought to adjourn and its members return
i to their constituents blushing for their
neglect of the public good.
> .
Jefferson Davis says he Is not now,
and never has been, a candidate for the
seat held by Senator Bruce. And so an
other republican lie that has been howl
ed for more than its \yorth. goes down
into its little grave.
A “true democrat,” outride of ring
rule, is not to be tolerate by the colossal
editor of the Rome Courier. But It IS
not often a “true democrat” seeks a post
office appointment from a republican
president.
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On Tuesday, the president approved
the bill providing for the exchange of
subsidiary coin for lawful money of the
United States, and making such coins
legal-tender in sums not exceeding ten
dollars.
There is a concurrent resolution pend
ing in both houses of congress providing
for an adjournment on Tuesday next. It
is said the members are very tired and
want to go home.
We repeat again that this little Head
light paper up here at Dalton is one of
the most sprightly and vimical papers in
Georgia. Behanged if it isn’t condensed
lightning.
There has been bad management just
prior to presidential campaigns by so
called democratic leaders for twelve
years. Everybody knows the results.
Isn’t Cartersviile just a little too slow
for a progressive town ? The advertis
ing columns of tiie local press indicate as
much.*
Mr. Drewry Tye, charged with the
murder of ins father-in-law in Fulton
county, was acquitted last Monday morn
ing.
The Rome Courier continues to belch
sourly. It is troubled with a great deal
of putrescent “organized” wind.
The halls of congress is nothing more
than a place of meeting for drunken po
litical brawlers.
The Turkish government has informed
the powers that the refusal of Aleko Pas
cha to wear the fez and hoist the Turkish
flag was a violation of engagements be
tween him and the Porte. When East
Rotunelia has been evacuated, a demand
will be made upon him to carry out these
engagements, and if he refuses to com
ply, the powers will be requested by the
Porte to sanction his removal.
In the house, as committee of the
whole, on Saturday, additional appropri
ations ror the support of the postoffice
department were considered, and an in
crease of the appropriation for $363,000 to
$415,000 for the payment of increased
salaries to fetter carriers Was adopted.
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
A Washington special to the Atlanta
Constitution of yesterday, says that Ohio
people in that city make no bones in
charging in a quiet w ay that the controll
ing element in the recent greenback con
vention at Columbus was republican
money. The dispatch continues:
However this may be, it is a signifi
cant fact that the more prominent mem
bers of that unhappy party denounce
the Columbus convention in strong
terms, and will have none of it. The
most significant fact in the whole affair
is that at a conference of the nationals in
Toledo the other day nearly all of those
present were for Ewing out and out.
The Columbus convention which nomi
nated Piatt was denounced in strong
terms and there was no one to defend it.
It was freely charged, moreover, that
certain members of that convention were
on republican pay—all of which very
plainly goes to show that the republi
cans are nervously anxious to prevent a
coalition betw’eon the greenbackers and
the democrats. They may succeed in
preventing a coalition in name, but they
cannot prevent it in fact. Democratic
greenbackers here have received assur
ances from nationals in all parts of Ohio
that the voters of that party are heartily
for Ewing, no matter what course Sam
Cary and other whilom leaders may pur
sue. There is some curiosity manifested
to know what the convention called by
Cary will do, but I am assured by those
who ought to know that whatever fol
lowing this irreconcilable has in the
campaign will be drawn from the repub
lican camp. The gieenbaekers and
nationals who are sincerely in favor of
financial reform will vote for Thomas
Ewing almost solidly, because they
know* that the defeat of the democratic
ticket is practically the defeat of the
principles which they have espoused.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Atlanta Constitution.]
The Ohio democrats were none too
sudden or emphatic when they put into
their platform a declaration “that the
rapid increase of the interest-bearing
debt of the government under the pres
ent administration ought to excite the
serious apprehension of the people.”
The actual increase is shown in the fol
lowing figures:
Interest-bearing debt.
.Tune 1, 1879, :::::::: $1,967,414,760
31arch 1, 1877, :::::::: 1,706,381,075
Increase in 27 months, : : : : $ 261,033,685
This is what the books show; this is
the actual condition of the debt; but Sec
retary Sherman in a recent statement
pleads some mitigating circumstances.
He claims that in the refunding opera
tions there are certain duplications of
the debt that will disappear by the first
of August, when 'the called bonds will
have matured. He reports that the
bonded debt has been increased as fol
lows : v
Interest-bearing debt.
August 1, 1879, ::::::: $1,797,643,700
March 1, 1877, ::::::: 1,706,381,075
Increase in 29 months, : : : : $ 91,262,625
He has sold bonds to the amount of
about ninety millions in preparing for
resumption; but the sly old fox neglects
to mention the sale of $40,000,000 ten
dollar certificates, the proceeds of which
go by law* into the treasury as a part of
the redemption fund. Taking his own
figures, he has therefore swelled the
bonded debt at least $130,000,000. This
swelling will, with its interest, amount
at maturity to $040,000,000 —which is the
lowest sum that this boasted resumption
business of the administration w ill cost
the people. In other words we are to
pay $640,000,000 in order that Mr. J.
Sherman can hold in the treasury vaults
$130,000,000 for the purpose of making
himself the autocrat of our money mar -
kets and the successor of the present oc
cupant of the white house. It is a dear
bargain for the people, and the Ohio
democrats acted wisely in calling the at
tention of those who do the paying to the
real facts of the case.
WILLIAMS, BIRNTE & CO.
New York Times],
In respose to a written call posted on
the bulletin board of the cotton exchange,
a meeting of the creditors of Williams,
Birnie & Cos. was held yesterday after
noon in the exchange committee room.
Betvveen thirty and forty firms, repre
senting unsecured indebtedness aggre
gating $286,000 took part in the proceed
ings. Mr. John L, Macauley presided.
Considerable indignation was manifested
in regard to the alleged intention of Mr.
Williams to repudiate the contracts on
“futures” made by Mr. Birnie in the
name of the firm, after promising credi
tors personally that he would pay every
thing before leaving New York. Other
genuCffl p n continued to have faith in Mr.
Williams’ promises. They said that the
full extent of the indebtedness was
known to him when he made them, and
he had not yet retracted them. His re
turn to Charleston, they believed, was
merely for th® purpose of collecting the
necessary funds. They, therefore, con
sidered the uncomplimentary remarks
that had been indulged in gratuitous and
premature. It is agreed on all sides that
Mr. Williams was legally responsible
for the acts of his partner, and, after dis
cussion, a committee of seven was ap
pointed to endeavor to secure an amica
ble adjustment of the sums due, and fail
ing in that, to proceed against Mr. Wil
liams to the full extent of the law. Va
rious amounts due the late firm of Wil
liams, Birnie & Cos. by members of the
exchange will reduce the aggregate to
about $250,000.
Just about this time, when the power
and patronage of the administration is
being exerted to secure the nomination
of John Sherman as the radical candi
date for president, it would be well for
Hayes and Sherman to hunt up that civil
service order of his fraudulency, and
take a good, sober look at it. The order
reads:
“Executive Mansion, Washington,
June 22.— Sir: I desire to call at
tention to the following paragraph In a
letter addressed me by the secretary of
the treasury on the conduct to be observ
ed by officers of the general government
in relation to the elections: ‘No officer
shall be required or permitted to take
part in the management of political or
ganizations, caucuses, convention or elec
tion campaigns. Their right to vote and
to express their views on public ques
tions, either orally or through the press,
is not denied, provided it does not inter
fere with the discharge of their official
duties. No assessment for political pur
poses on officers or subordinates shall be
allowed.” This rule Is applicable to
every department of the civil service. It,
should be understood by every officer of
tlitf general government that he is ex
pected to conform his conduct, to its re
quirement, Verv respectfully,
_ ' “R. B. llayes.”
A jeweler in South Royaiston, Yt.,
spied on the finger of a highly esteemed
young lady who was shopping in his
store a ring that had been stolen from his
stock. She told him in response to his
inquiries that it had been given to her
by a boyish suitor. This led to the dis
covery of a society of thieves, sons of re
spectable parents. The boys had secret
signs, passwords and oaths, after the
manner of a body they bad read about
in a dime novel, and had committed sev
eral burglaries.
AN APPEAL TO GEORGIAN’S.
Iu behalf of the memorial association of
Americas, we come to you, kind reader,
to enlist your aid and your sympathy.
We come in the name of our sleeping
soldiery, whose remains lie unprotected
and uncared for amid the wild woods of
the forest, and subject to obliteration and :
decay. We come as a voice from the
grave, the true portals of immortality.
We come in. the name of the brother, son
and sire who battled for the right and
fell for freedom’s cause. We come in
the name of mothers, wives and sisters of
those brave soldiers and demand at your
hands the fight of removal and protec
tion. We come with our hearts all aglow
with enthusiasm and determination to
push our enterprise to completion. Our
hearts cannot, nor will not, give up our
dead. Then come to our rescue, friends ;
pledge fidelity to our sacred cause and
send us a liberal contribution.
The confederate dead, now thrown out
of the national cemetery, are from every
state in the south. Then let us again
come to you and beg each state to assist
us in the removal of these bodies from
Andersonville to Amerieus, where we
may do honor to their memory and re
spect to their graves.
We come now in behalf of the ladies to
you, gentlemen of the press, who have
always been so kind and generous to our
beloved cause, and beg your assistance in
bringing this good work before the peo
ple in your respective localities. Venti
late it freely in your papers and insist
upon the ladies co-operating with us in
this labor of love.
Gratitude to the dead is a noble and
undying virtue and every voice in nature
must be silenced before its song is hush
ed, and every trace of humanity must be
obliterated before its record shall perish.
The simple green turf on which the gen
tle touch of love is inscribed is more
beautiful and lasting than the marble or
the granite. Then let us come to you
again in the voice that shall swell the
chorus in honor of our confederate dead,
and place them where we can put upon
their last resting place the offerings of
| love, gratitude and affection.
Mrs. C. W. Hancock,
Vice President M. A.
Amerieus, Ga,, June 7, 1879.
Sanannah, June 9.—A terrible riot
took place this afternoon at Mclntosh,
Liberty county, a station on the Atlantic
and Gulf railroad, between a party of ne
gro excursionists from Bryan county and
those belonging to the place. It began
in a fight between two negroes, where
upon John Randall, captain of a negro
military company from Bryan county
militia, which company made a part of
the excursionists, ordered his company
to charge, which they did, bayoneting
everybody within reach, the captain him
self killing one man by running him
through witn his sword. There was in
tense excitement at this outrage. The
Liberty county negroes rallied and drove
the military into the cars, and then open
ed fire on them, killing four and wound
ing many more, only stopping shooting
when the train got out of the way, which
they tried to prevent by tearing up the
track. All the parties engaged w ere ne
groes.
We don’t believe, says the Washington
Post, there is an ex-soldier in the union
army who ever faced the confederate
lines, who will have any other emotion
than disgust and contempt for ex-Con
gressman Martin I. Townsend’s decora
tion day oration, in which that colossal
ass compared the union dead to the Sa
vior of mankind, and the confederate
dead to the two thieves crucified with
Him. It was a blasphemous and brutal
speech, such as never helps any cause.
When Mr. Chandler threw his bible at
the odoriferous mephitis americanus, he
did not make so vile a use of that sacred
volume as was made by Martin I. Town
send when he used the story of the cross
to revile the dead—the dead who were
so honest that they gave their lives in
proof of their devotion to the cause for
which they fought.
One result of the contest which the
democrats are at present waging in con
gress in behalf of free elections is seen in
the Ohio legislature, where a bill is now
pending providing for the establishment
of separate polls for state and county elec
tions, so far removed from the congress
ional polls that United States marshals
cannot interfere with them. The history
of interference with peace, order and dig
nity of elections, by these radical “stri
kers,” in the mind of the sovereign state
of Ohio fully justifies these protective
measures. There is good material for a
sermon to the revolutionary radicals in
all this.
An enterprising young man was em
ployed by a San Francisco Arm to adver
tise their condensed chowder. He hired
an upper box in Baldwin’s theatre, and
placed across the front a big transparen
cy, inscribed: “Try Condensed Chow
der.” The ushers ordered him to take it
down, but he locked the door of the box
and proceeded coolly to light the candles
in the transparency. The manager or
dered up his forces for an ejectment, but
first sent for the young mail’s employer,
who had the advertisement removed just
before the commencement of the per
formance.
A woman in Los Angelos, California,
became possessed of the notion that her
little girl might, by slow starvation, be
brought to such a physical condition that
she would be translated to the spirit
world without dying. With that end in
view she fed the child on fruit only,
steadily diminishing the quantity, until
the victim was horribly emaciated.
Neighbors then interfered, much to the
displeasure of the mother, who dec.ared
| that the little one had reached a point
where visions of spirit life betokened the
f nearness of the expected change.
1 #
The inventor of shoes for walking on
the water gave an exhibition at Memphis.
He stepped boldly off the levee, but the
i buoyancy of the shoes was not equal to
! expectation, and he immediately sank
into the river. He was so nearly drown
ed when rescued that they rolled him on
a barrel. No more successful was the
trial of a flying machine at San Francis
co. The inventor started from a house
top, fluttered briefly in the air, and fell
into a stream, where the apparatus near
ly caused his death by sinking him.
Secretary McCrary’s confirmation is not
not all assured. The democrats think he
is altogether too fond of banyonet law
to be a federal fiudge, and his author
ship of veto message number one of the
army appropriation bill being based on
such a radical misinterpretation of the
fundamental law that "democrats think
they cannot consistently support him
for a judical position^
♦
The Illinois papers are growling a good
deal at their late legislature. They can
not charge it, however, with being nig
gardly in public expenditures, as its ap
propriations for the session amounted to
$0,221,781. Of this amount SBO,OOO went
fop the services of the military during the
strikes, $885,000 for the penitentiary and
the immense sum of $909,585 for insane
asylums.
A severe storm set in at Ramoski, Que
bec, Priday .night, and continued all day
Saturday. The sea rolled into the streets,
washing away the sidewalks and doing
much damage. The lighthouse on the
wharf was also washed away and the
railway track torn up.
Foster’s statement to the Ohio stal- ;
warts that he had become convinced of i
the failure of Haye’s southern policy to
accomplish its object, and that he and
Hayes had practically repudiated it, is
practically a confession that because it
had failed to republieanize the south,
it had been abandoned. Some people
had supposed that a higher and purer
motive prompted Ilaye’s southern policy.
The total coinage of the several govern
ment mints during the month of May
amounted to $5,213,258, of which $2,878,-
550 were in double and quarter eagles,
$2,330 in silver dollars, and $4,708 in five
cent, three cent and one cent pieces.
Solo vie ff, the would-be-assassin of the
Czar, has been found guilty and sentenced
to be hung, after being deprived of bis
civil rights.
NEW AI)VERTiEMENTST
Tax Notice.
I WILL BE IN CARTERSVILLE ON JUNE
21st and 28th to receive tax returns, after
which no one will be allowed to give in. I am
compelled to close my books by the first of July
to sret them to the Comptroller-General as the
law requires. To save double tax all had better
come forward and make returns.
june!2 W. W. GINN.
To the Public.
This is to give notice that there
is a warrant against Gqprge Morrow. Said
Morrow is about five feet anu ten inches high,
weighs about 175 pounds, lias blue eyes and dark
complexion, and has a scar over the'left eye, ex
tending from the eye-brow to the hair on fore
head. He has thus far evaded arrest. Any per
son who will arrest the said party ami deliver
him to the officers of Bartow county, or give in
formation as to his whereabouts, will do an act
of public justice and confer a favor upon the un
dersigned. W. P. VAUGHN.
A. F. MURPHY,
Rome, :::::: Georgia.
GENERAL SOUTHERN AGENT
New York Portrait Painting Company.
Will take orders for any quali
ty and size portrait known to the art for
less money than such work can be done for by
any other'house. Parties desiring portraits can
send photograph, with description of complexion,
hair, eyes and dress. junel2-6m
Notice to Teachers.
All applicants for public schools
will meet me in the court house on Satur
day, the 14th of June, at 10 o’clock, a. m., for ex
amination. Let none fail, as this will be the last
chance for the year.
junes-2t THEO. E. SMITH, C. S. C.
Tax Notice.
I WILL BE AT MY OFFICE AT THE BOOK
store of H. M. Mounteastle & Cos. for the pur
pose of receiving tax returns of city property for
1879 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each
week from this date to July 19tli, 1879.
June sth, 1879. B. R. MOUNTCASTLE,
City Tax Receiver.
Revenue Sale.
United States Internal Revenue, l
Dep’y Collectors Office, (
Second Distict of Georgia, (
Cartkrsville, Ga., June 2, 1879. J
Ten days after date i will sell
at the usual time of sale the following prop
erty seized for violation of internal revenue
laws, viz: One ox and wagon,the property of
L. C. McCarther—no claim for above property
having been made or bond filed according to law.
william pool,
Deputy Collector.
Assignee’s Sale.
By virtue of an order from hon.
JOHN ERSKINE, Judge of the District
court of the United States for the Northern Dis
trict of Georgia, I will sell at public outcry lots
of land Nos. 69 and 70, situated in the sth district
and 3rd section of Bartow county, Georgia, and
containing 320 acres, more or less. Also, all the
uncollectible accounts, notes and judgments be
longing to the bankrupt estate of Leekc, Carter
<fc Cos., bankrupts. All of the above property
will be sold at the court house door in Oarters
viile, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in July, 1879,
and as the property of said bankrupts. If uot all
sold on first day oi July, sale will continue from
day to day until disposed of.
R. B. TRIPPE,
Assignee m Bankruptcy for Leeke, Carter & Cos.
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS,
PUBLISHED BY
Iverson, Blakeman, Taylor & Cos.,
NEW YORK,
R. E. PARK, Genera! Agent,
THIS series comprises among others, the fol
lowing well-known
STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS:
New Graded Readers^
Robinson’s Mathematics,
Spencerian Copy Books,
Well’s Scientific Works,
Riddle’s Astromics.
Dana’s Geology,
Woodbury’s German,
Kerl’s Grammar,
Webster’s Dictionary,
Swinton’s Histories,
Swinton’s Word Books,
Swinton’s Geographies,
Pasquell’s French,
Gray’s Botanies,
Bryant & Strattou’s Book-keeping,
Cathcart’s Literary Reader, etc., etc.
Correspondence respectfully solicted.
Address ROBERT E. PARK,
General Agent.
CareJ. W. Burke & co., Macon, Georgia.
Cheapest and 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.
liefers by permission to Mr. A. J. West, Presi
dent Cherokee Iron Company, Cedartown, Ga.,
whcr 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. John
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 4 , to Capt. M. B. Grant, or Mr. Gilbert
Butler, of Savannah, who have used it with
great success in stucco work, or Major Bryan,
of Savannah, Mr. J. J. Cohen, of Rome, to
Messrs. Grant, Jacksonville, Ala., who have
used it for fountains, pavemeuts, 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. 11. WARING, Kingston, Ga.
sepl2-ly.
J. C. & S, F. 311 LAM,
Commission
COTTON BUYERS,
Dealer's in. Standard Guanos,
AGENTS FOR
Metropolitan Works, Richmond, Va.
CAN FURNISH ANY KIND OF AN EN
gine from four-horse power to one hundred
and fifty.
SAW AND GRIST MILLS, THRESHERS,
And in fact any kind of machinery.
Please see us before purchasing. Office
at T. A. Foote’s store, West Mam street, Car
tersviile, Ga. feb27
ACTUAL BUSIIVESS !
Students on Change
___at
Moore’s
BUSINESS UNIVERSITY,
ATLANTA, GA.
The best practical business school I
in the country. Students can enter at anj
time. Total expenses tor three months, includ'-
ing tuition, stationery, board, etc., slls. Send
for circulars. B. F. MOORE, President.
aprs4-Bm.
NEW CROQUET SETS.
We have just received, direct from the east, a
large lot of Croquet Sets, with new rules for 1879,
which we are selling cheaper than ever before
Offered. H. M. MOUNTCASTLE & CO.
THE FREE PRESS.
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FOR. 1879.
C. IT. C. WILLINGHAM, EDITOR.
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CARTERSVILLE, GA.
FARMING LANDS
—AND—
| 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 haw for
sale fifteen farms, most of them near the railroad
depot, and convenient to jiost-oliices, churches
and schools. These lauds produce cotton, all the
grains and grasses, and water and Umber good
and This village is fifty-three miles
north of Atlanta, Ga., ami eigtv miles south of
Chattanooga, Tenn. Address
WM. T. WOFFORD,
Attorney at Law and Dealer in Real Estate,
Cass Station, Georgia.
THE STAB SALOON.
BAR AND BILLIARDS.
MORT E. PAINE
Has oped for the Spring and summer business
and will keep always on hand
THE VERY FINEST LIQUORS,
BRANDIES, WHISKEY AND WINES,
Which will he manipulated into
fancy drinks of all kinds.
on draught.
Cigars of the best brands. The public respect
fully invited.to call. rnayl
Fancy and Plain Confectioneries
We keep constantly on hand a large lot of
French and Stick Candies, Nuts, Raisins, etc.
Also, Crackers and Canned Goods. Teas, Starch,
Soda, Candles, Soaps and many otiier things too
numerous to mention.
Picture Frames and Mouldings
At the bookstore of
H. M. Mountcastle * Cos., CarterrrlHe, G*-