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THE FREE PRESS. An Independent Democratic Journal. C. H. C. WILLINGHAM, PIDiTOR. Tint Fkek J’kkss is an Independent Democrat ic .Journal, opposed to all Rings, Cliques and Combinations, of whatever sort, organizedtso de eat the will of the people in all public matters or interests in w hatever shape presented. CartersvlHe, deorgia, Autrust 7, 1879. SPECIAL NOTICE. Subscribers receiving their Papers w ith a CROSS MARK opposite their names are lerely notified that they are behind and that payment is desired at onee. Two Cross Marks indicate that more than one > ear is due. Please pay tip at onee. \\ HA T THE PEOPLE SA >’. Newspapers ought to represent public opinion on all state and national ques tions that concern the people, but it is a fact which all thinking minds will con cede that the “organized” press of Geor gia fails altogether in representing at the present time the feelings and the senti ments of Georgians. The friends of Gov. Colquitt and the governor himself are wofully deceived if they suppose for a single ii slant, tliat thei i c epancies and irregularities about the state house are covered up by the one-sided action of cer tain journals. It is always better to know the truth; and no man who looks to the people for endorsement will thank his impolitic friends for misleading his ow n mind in the way that Gov. Colquitt’s newspapers are now misstating the truth. There is universal, .wide-spread dissat isfaetion all over Georgia- Thera ie<lie trust in the public mind. The people who repudiated Bullock and elected Col quitt by 80,000 majority, are filled with dismay when a democratic governor has not only failed to retrench and reform, hut has allowed proceedings carried on in the state house that make Bullock and Id administration decidedly respectable l>v comparison. Bullock advocated state aid to railroads until the state had to rise in the majesty of right and veto his acts, but the men who helped Bullock to rob Georgia have been equally busy under later administrations; and the people are now saying, “What hope have we? Whom can we trust? Is there no man who w ill look after the interests of the state with an eye single to the welfare of the 'commonwealth ? Gov. Colquitt may be as innocent as an angel of corruption, per se, but he has been notoriously negligent of his known duty. lie has failed to protect the treas ury of the state. He has given large fees to personal friends upon his own war rant, w ithout consulting the legislature, which body alone is authorized to dis tribute the money of the people. He had no more right to give Garlington and Alston $30,000 without authority from the legislature than a bank clerk has to give the money of the bank to a friend of his who might have informed the clerk of certain service, valuable to that bank. If that service was meritorious, it would would not suffer by asking the permis sion of his employees. Neither would ” cj*— 1 *-*■- 1 —- - suffered if l 1,0 legfslatura harl ham. IVJ see 111C1I' meritorious deeds. The governor was hasty and very imprudent. lie should have waited for proper authority, and his acknowledgement of this authority w<mid have strengthened him far more than his presumptuous action in thus throwing broadcast the money of his em ployees. Jas. A. Green held a commis sion from the legislature to push certain claims before congress. Gov. Colquitt overlooked that commission and sent his friend, W. O. Tuggle, to proecute them. President Hayes has equal right to set aside any esmmissioner appointed by con gress, and place one of his ow n pets in tin 4 position. Eighty thousand majority does not mean w 7 e are to have a dictator in this state. The governor must respect law and confine himself to his proper sphere; or the people will attend to his case at the ballot-box. When the wild land troubles were be coming a stench in the nostrils of good citizens, the governor folded his arms and did not open his mouth to warn the I ample of their danger. He seems singu larly reticent when it comes to saving the money of the state. He then plants him self on his dignity and the people may guess at the disorder that preys upon their vitals, and the state may get relief without any aid from him. Georgia may track her goods into the state house, un der his very eyes, but he coolly says, “it was no business of mine.” A man is killed almost at his feet, after pleading for protection, yet the governor failed to warn the police or advise the proper au thc r.tic's to make an arrest, or take out a peace warrant, lie fails to act when ac tion seems imperative. Murphy can trade on his official action as easy as winking your eye, yet the gov ernor sees no harm in it. Murphy can keep an eye on the treasury and also on the governor. lie may “bull and bear” the market ad libitum, and the governor sits like patience on a monument con tented and indifferent. Unless he evinces anxiety to pay big fees, (which he can not wait to ask the legislature about), he is as supremely- resigned to the irreg ularities that pertain to convict camps, wild lands, “Murphy fees,” etc., as the Khedive is indifferent to a labor strike in west Pennsylvania. The governor folds his mantle and qui etly allows the state to attend to all the business he was elected to attend to; for getting that he is the trusted agent of Georgia to execute her laws. When a grand jury of Bartow county, in January last, exercised the right to call attention to the wild land frauds, the “Murphy fbe” and the convict system, there went up from all parts of Georgia a perfect howl of indignation. The jury did not express a decided opinion or con viction in regard to those subjects, but did express the opinion that the facts con nected with all the charges be thorough ly investigated. Bartow’s grand jury was correct as passing events and devel opments go to show.' OPJI ST A TE GO VEHEMENT. The “organized” cauldron in Atlanta is seething over a red-hot fire and scald ing the ever-faithful with great intensity* We propose to push up the chunks and keep tlie boiling process very lively so tar as we can. When Gov. Bullock resigned the gubernatorial office and left the state in a quiet w av, and the demo cratic* party came into power, in the effort to accomplish which we took a pretty lively part, we expected our state gov ernment would be conducted with ample ability and on the most rigid system of democratic honesty. We thought taxes would be decreased and that corruption would come to an end. And when the constitutional convention met in 1877 we fairly wept for joy. We thought the state’s political millennium had come. That eighty thousand democratic majori ty for governor in 1876 had prepared our mind to expect all that w as pure and in corruptible in' the.aflairsof the state. We thought that even th<* Kirkwood mutual admiration society would be willing to forego all speculations in office in the in terest of the state and people. But. alas! alas! the very angels weep and impious devils laugh at the weak ness and crookedness of the conspicuous piety of the Kirkwood mutual admiration administration. Sunday school litera ture effects no perceptible influence in promoting the best interest of the state, and “toll gates” stand as sentinels watch ing the pecuniary interests of officials and “scate pets.” Lucifer fell from a high estate and Hainan was not hung higher than will be the spectral form of an “organized,” so-called, in 1880. Oh, democracy! how we “rallied around tin* flag” and “closed up” against Bullock, and on the line of “retrenchment and re form,” w r as a( a ition to David Crockett. We were “organized,” you bet! When military satraps wanted to dose up the old LaGrange Reporter, and imprison Ibis writer, we didn’t, let the democratic banner low er in our hand. \\ e came near reaching martyrdom—all for demo cratic rule in Georgia. The “organized” democracy was faithful to il- mission then in the redemption of the state. But, alas! alas! let patriots weep in sor row and honest children of grand old Georgia shed tears of blood, as they wit ness the results following the manipula tion of the party by unscrupulous politi cal thimble-riggers and tricksters who have brought disrepute and misrule, weakness and failure, to democratic su premacy in Georgia! Will not the independent spirit of the people arouse from its slumbers, rise to the occasion, and place men in power who will subserve the interests of the state and the people by a faithful, able and benign administration of our public affairs ? To be a democrat is not to be “organized.” The highest type of de mocracy is to be independent in the ex i ercise of the elective franchise. The most exalted conception of democratic princi ples is to think and act honestly and to ex hibit true and manly independence in the election of the best men for office. De- mocracy does not mean subserviency to rings and cliques and conventions that do not represent popular sentiment. The best democracy is that w hich places the best citizens in r*n\w , ■- . For these reasons the rank and file ot the people are becoming aroused to a sense of public danger. They feel like popular liberty is at stake, and in 1880 there will be in Georgia a popular dem onstration that will sweep the state in the effort to change the affairs of the state to the interest of the people. May the spirit of God and liberty rest upon the tide that will roll the ship of state in to a safe harbor! —+ ♦ • There is a great deal said by the “or ganized” concerning a warfare made up on Gov. Colquitt because of his devotion to religion and piety and Sunday school interests. N T ovv, we don’t know of a sin gle instance of the kind occurring until the organs began to boost him on that line whenever he preached or made a Sunday school speech. Indeed, his indiscreet friends have far too much to say of his excellency’s devotion to these subjects. There has been too much display and pa rade of bis piety in the papers, as it would S3em as a means of appeals to the relig ious sentiments of the state. We like pious men in all stations of life, but then there are some very pious men who can not make successful governors. The house of representatives have re solved to prefer articles of. impeachment against Comptroller Goldsmith for mal feasance in office. No one regrets it more than we do. His past reputation makes it a painful matter to Ids friends. It has obtained such shape that Col. G. can only desire a fair and impartial trial. If that will establish his innocence none will be more grateful than we. Until a decision as to jhis innocence or quilt is established we prefer not to offer any comments, except it is hard for us to be lieve that he has been in cor ruption. We have not the space to give our readers the proceedings of the com mittee of thirteen. For The present we have no more to say. How is this ? The treasurer and comp troller-general of the Bullock regime were both considered faithful officers and not a charge was ever made against them. Until this .day they continue to be re garded as having been faithful and true officers of the state. The charge that Col. C. D. Phillips, chairman of the wild land committee, desires the office of comptroller general is pronounced by that gentleman as a lie, and a rascally one. Good ! According to promise we give to our readers the great speech of Mr. Stephens before the legislature. It was a masterly speech, and we reproduce it as revised by himself. We understand, from a reliable source, that there is a strong pressure in North Georgia for General Robert Toombs to become a candidate for the gov ernorship. It seen*s to he the desire that General Toombs shall - run indepen dent of all nomination, caucus, ring or clique, regardless of party, color of pre vious condition, — \facon Weekly. GENERAL TOOMBS. The History of His Railroad Fees From tlie State. Washington, Ga., July 28. —Editors Constitution : My attention was called just before I left Atlanta to an editorial arti cle in the Chronicle and Constitutionalist of the 22d inst. asking for information as how much money I had received from Governor Smith and Governor Colquitt for mj- professional services in the rail road tax eases of the state against the various railroads in Georgia. That journ al desires that the account should be item ized, and expressed the opinion that the account would furnish “good reading” for the public. For the sole reason that the article is calculated, if not intended, to benefit the railroad corporations to the detriment of the people of Georgia whose interests have been in part committed to me, I will respond. These eases arose under an act of the legislature passed in February, 1874. 1 was restrained by Governor Smith as counsel for the state. He paid me two thousand dollars in part pay of my retainer, and subsequently, 1 think, in 1876, he paid me for commis sions on the money received from the Central railroad what she refused to pay, two thousand more, above $20,000 having been brought into the treasury on tliat ease by virtue of decisions made by the supreme court of Georgia affirmed by the supreme court of the United States, mak ing $4,0 0 from Governor Smith. I have received nothing from Governor Colquitt, never having presented him with any account. This is the whole account itemized, and I hope the C. and C. will find much “good reading” in it. The number of fi. fas. contested by the railroads is between fifty and sixty, and every single one tried they have been found defaulters. I think up to this time more than one hundred thousand dollars have been paid into the state treaury un der the principles thus far decided by the courts, beyond what the railroads admit ted to be due, and contested with the aid of a large number of the best law yers of the state, aided by two of the most dis tinguished lawyers out of the state, prac ticing in the Supreme court of the Uni ted States, and there are now several judg ments in ravor of the state for about five hundred thousand dollars for taxes and penalties in eases made bv the railroads and decided by the courts of the. last re sort which can he realized at the pleasure of the state. Besides these taxes thus received for the years 1871-5-6-7, the property thus subjected by these decis ions, all of which was claimed to lie partially or w holly exempt, by these de eisions is decided to In* perpetually liable to annual taxation by the legislature of Georgia under her own constitution. By these decisions, the state can increase her revenue more than two hundred thous and dollars per annum by simple taxing railroad property at tic* same rate as slit* does that of paupers who own a i soap-gourd ora string of red pepper. By | this litigation, forty millions of privil eged property has been brought under the law, and subject to be taxed the general and equal rates. What honest man re grets it? Ido not wish the Chronicle and Constitutionalist to understand that { my account for just compensation is closed, but he may take consolation from the facts that the counsel of the state will not have to call on the treasury for their fees. They can be abundantly compen sated by telling their recoveries extorted by law from the grasp of public plun ders. lam very respectfully, your obedient servant. It. Toombs. GOVERNOR COLQUITT AND THE WHITEWASH BRIGADE. Some of the additional threats made by the enthusiastic followers of our present governor are that leaving the bad man agement of his subordidates out of the next campaign he will go before the peo ple on his own merits. “The investiga tions have established his personal hon ward. It would be exceedingly strange and beyond passing knowledge for any one to explain how an administration is to be passed upon except in approval or condemnation the grand centre head. For in all times to come it will be point ed to and stigamtized as the “Colquitt administration.” Colquitt cannot rid himself of the Alston fee, the Murphy fee, and last of all the Tuggle fee. If patriotism means anything, it is the duty of every citizen of the State when he knows anything of benefit to his State to disclose it without money or price. Contrast for Instance the action of old Bob Toombs when offered a guaranteed fee of SIOO,OOO against the State. He flatly refused: “Georgia is all I love, and all that I can do to promote her glory it is my bounden duty to perform.” —Gainesville Southerron. The custom of postmasters guessing at the designation of misdirected letters and forwarding them accordingly has, in many instances, caused considerable an anoyance and loss of time to correspon dents. The subject has been under con sideration at tne Postofflee Department, and a letter has been prepared recom mending that postmasters be instructed to discontinue the practice. It is sugges ted that when the postmaster has posi tive knowledge of the true desti nation of a letter he .should forward it, otherwise, it should be sent to the dead letter office, or, if the necessary informa tion is upon the envelope, it should he returned to the sender. The peculiar cry of the “organized” is something for the reflection of the peo ple. If they believe that to break up the rotten den at Atlanta under the control of the “organized” would be to the ad vantage of radicalism, why, of course, the}" are bound to submit to being robbed and swindled by wild land speculators, et. al. But if the people should con clude that a defeat of this same “organ ized,” was a purely local fight against lo cal corruption, and that democratic fraud was no better than radical stealing, why the “organized” will be apt to cry “wolf, wolf!” in vain. —Central Georgia' Weekly. We never had any doubt as to the Gov ernor’s right and duty to signs the North eastern railroad bonds, but we did and do yet complain of the Governor for not signing the bonds until he learned (ac cording to his own testimony) that Wes Murphy was to got an SB,OOO fee for ob taining his signature. We thought the arguments of Ben Hill and others in the case before the courts, and the opinions of Bob Toombs, Joe Brown and others outside the courts, ought to have weigh ed quite as heavy as the fee matter upon the mind of his Excellency.— Gainesvilee Southron. As General Badger was ascending the stairs of the New Orleans custom house Monday morning, he was met by an ex member of Kellogg’s metropolitan police, who attempted to shoot him. The man had lost a leg on the 14th of September, 1574, and thought that Badger ought to have given him a place in the United States custom house. Badger caught the assailant’s arm, took the pistol from him and threw it away. A Connecticut paper, published at Litchfield, has this gloomy report: “Land was never lower in New England, du the present century, than it is to-daj r ; farming was never more unproductive, nor the prospect for the future more gloomy. Must our history be one of steady decline in vital force, far beyond that indicated by our decline in popula tion, until the wave shall finally set back from an over-populated West?” A LIBERTINE’S LUCK. The Adventures of a Former Joplinite in the Goober State. Jopen (Mo) Herald. Many of our readers will remember a dwarf who came to our city in 1877 and advertised himself :is Dr. F. W. Memmler, competent to cure the uneurable, and per form miracles of all kinds. lie bought a building of Dan Moore, in Novembre, calling it the Joplin medical institute, where at first he had quite a run of cus tom, but in t’ne short space of four months the fellow proved himself a probable humbug, and his patients left him one bv one. The burning of his institute in April 1878, is already fresh in the minds of the citizens of the first ward, which oc- curred under very suspicious circumstan ces. The fire was said, was caused by chemicals. Whether prepared for that purpose, and by whom has never been ascertained—he had a similar fire a year' previous, in Wisconsin, audit is said, makes things look a little colored, and we understand the companies are still work*- ing up the matter, and do doubt justice will soon overtake the guilt}' party, should he be found guilty. In February, 1878, we are told he procured a divorce from his wife w ith her consent for the purpose of going down south, (and as he sai(l) to marry rich widows until he got rich, when lie would return and show people what he could do. This di vorce he intended to keep secret, and he colibitated with his divorced wife the same as before. By the Ist of June it got to the ever-attentive ear of the grand jury and an indictment for adultery would have been inevitable, had he not married the same woman a second time, and by this legal act saved himself from prose cution under the law. Some three or five days afterwards, he with liis bosom friend, Zojopi, left under cover of the night, for parts unknown, his wife left two days later for St. Louis, where, it is reported, they met by agreement’, when she went north and he went south, till all at once he turns up in the state of Georgia, where he also caused quite a rumpus through show cards and bogus di plomas. One of his patients down there a very rich widow’, who had not been in her right mind since her husband’s death, was by his medical treatment and per sonal persuasions, induced to marry him last April. Her relatives, who are of high social standing, undertook to trace up his past record and learned nothing good of him, and above all, that he had another wife living, (In* had said his w ife was dead). This seems to have been more than our Georgia friends could stand. They caused his arrest and are prosecuting him for bigamy, and have also stopped his getting hold of a large sum of money. It is to lie hoped the scoundrel will get the full extent of the law r and placed where he will not disgrace humanity. The gang of which he seems to he the “boss,” appears, as far as know n to consist of several persons soat terly through Kansas and Wisconsin, with headquarters at present in Georgia, who are ever ready to help each other out, when in trouble. THINGS IN DIXIE. In New Orleans they call in suspicious instead of sporadic. It kills “allee samee ” A malignant form of cholera-morbus is prevalent in Oldham county, Ky. Knoxville, Tenn, is to have water works at no distant day. Carrole parish, Louisiana, boasts of a thirty-four pound pumpkin. The grand lodge of Knights of Pythias of Kentucky will meet at Henderson on the 16th and 17th of September. The grand lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor of Kentucky will meet in Shelbyville 19th of August. Cotton picking has commenced and is progressing quite lively in several of the parishes in Louisiana. wnuiiv... iitßiuncai society will have a special meeting on the 15th at Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs. The mines in Spottsvania, Virginia, have shipped twenty good sized bags of gold dust to the Philadelphia mint. Mr. Edwards, on Monday, caught two genuine cod fish in South river, forty miles for Newbern, N. C. Jesse Reynolds, of Hard count}, Ky., has a ewe that was born with but two feet which has lived several years, by careful attention, and raised six lambs. * When at Martinsburg, Va., Fred Doug last, in advising the colored folks to keep themselves clean, said he believed in baptism w ith a good deal of soap with it. During the month of August there were coined at the several mints of the United States: Piece*. Value. Double Eagles 139,750 $2,795,000 Eagles 12,000 120,000 Half Eagles 21,700 108,500 Total gold 173,450 3,023,500 Standard dollars . 1,650,000 1,650,000 Cents 811,000 8,110 1 otal coinage 2,634,450 $4,681,610 The capture of Cetywayo is considered all important, but Sir Granet Wolseley will not attempt it with British troops on account of the nature of the country. He will stir up the neighboring tribes against the defeated King, and lias offer ed Oldham, his brother, five thousand head of cattle if he will effect the capture. A conference of native chiefs has been called for July 19th to hear the final terms of settlement. A terrific storm visited the greater por tion of England, and especially the val ley of the Thames, on Saturday night, in flicting tremendous loss. The damage to glass alone in places around London amounts to several thousands pounds sterling. Cattle were drowned and crops severely injured. Damage by floods and lightening is reported from Cam bridge, Norfolk, Guilford, Leicester, Bath and Monmouth. Fears of a famine next year in Zulu biml are general. Cetywayo with about seven thousand followers, is trying to slip northward into the teritory of a friend ly chief. His arm. is broken up, he himself is a fugitive and has informed his chiefs, to seek terms of peace as best they might. Zulnland will probably be di vided up into three or four separate principalities. The Nashville Banner says that one re markable feature of the yellow fever in Memphis this year, is the absence of deaths among the ' children. It usually plays havoc among the little prattlers, as the records of New Orleans last year show a per centage of 12 of children among all deaths. This year, as a rule, it is the middle aged who are attacked, and those wlyp have died, with one or two excep tions, have adults. Judge Lowell on Monday rendered an opinion at Providence, Rhode Island, In the equity suit of William S. Hoyt vs. Amasa Sprague et at., dismissing the hill with costs. The decision will prob ably save the A. and W. Sprague estate from utter bankruptcy, LaGrange Reporter: Any person who knows anything about Jordan Thornton, who lived in Troup county somewhere about 1835 or 1840, or about his heirs or relatives, will please communicate with the editor of the Reporter. FOREIGN FLASHES. London, August s.—ln North Sttif fordshire 3,400 colliers have already struck against the proposed reduction of wages, which affects 17,000 persons. The house of commons to-day went in to a committee on the Irish university bill, Mr. Smythe (home rule), member for Westmeath county, having, after a protracted debate, withdrawn his motion, its that subject was too important for con sideration at the end of the session of parliament, Lorillad’s three year old bay colt Uneas, which was entered for the Brigh ton stakes raee did not start. The race for the juvenile stakes was won by T. Pouter’s two year old bay filly, Despot ism. m The Standard's Madrid correspondent says it is reported in official circles that the marriage of the king of Spain with the Austrian Archduchess Christine wil take place during the coming autumn. A dispatch from Kissengen to the Daily Xe*cs, says: It is denied on good authority that any arrangement has been concluded for the settlement of the relig ious questions at issue between Germany and the Vatican, yield to any essential point in the Falk laws to secure the mo- dus vivendi. A dispatch to the Times from Constan tinople says, the Turkish government seems disposed to play the same game at Novi Bazar, that it played formerly in Bosnia An agitator from Novi Bazar whom the port promised to banish to Asia has been lodged in the palace here, and landed in the official newspapers as a patriot. Louisville, August s.— The report of the state commissioner ofagriculture, just issued, says: “Correspondents in all parts of the state speak despairingly of anything like a full corn crop. The wheat crop is extraordinarily in both quality and yield, the acreage being eight to ten per cent, above last year. Reports from the tobacco districts are unsatisfactory. None of the correspondents estimate more than 75 per cent, of the usual crops; the quality, however, will be good. Apples will hardly reach a half crop, and peach es are a total failure. Pears are a full crop and the fruit is perfect. With the failure of hay, and a possible failure to some extent of corn, the out look for far mers is not very cheering.” Con don, August s.—The Standard's Berlin correspondent points out'a sentence in a letter from the crown prince to the pope, Avritten during the regency of the former while the emperor was recovering from the effects of the attempted assassi nation, which says that an alternation of the Prussian laws to accord with the stat utes of the Roman church, would be in consistent with loyality to his ancestors and his duty to his country, which senti ment, the correspondent, says, cannot be explained away. This is in connection with the modification of the May laws. Tiie Memphis census returned in a classified form, was as follows: It aggre gates 16,110: Whites 4,283 Colored, 11,827 Adults 10,651 Children 5,559 Had yellow fever 9,743 Unacclimated 7,867 Unknown . . 1,722 St. Paul, August s.—The advices re ceived at headquarters from General Miles, show that Sitting Bull with his whole camp of eight thousand people lias moved north to Swan lake, eighty miles from the United States boundary, where he intends to remain. He promises not to cross the line or hunt buffalo on the American side,without permission. The report that the executors of Brig ham Young’s estate has given bonds and and been released.,*® , miaioVa lauuu to give the bonds and were sent to the penitentiary. The funeral of the Mormon elder lately killed in Georgia took place at Salt Lake yesterday. No excitement prevailed. Country people have a very poor opin ion of the officers connected with our state government. So many ugly de velopments have been made recently, they have lost all confidence. —Sunday Phonograph . It is said that a fashionable New York woman sold a superb pair of black car riage horses because they were not be coming to her, now she had stopped dye ing her hair yellow. The Wesleyan conference at Birming ham, England, has adopted a report in favor ot an ecumencial conference as pro posed by American Wesleyans. So many government oflicials are away from Washington nursing little boom's that the big boom of the ship of state is running itself. W • • It has cost England about $25,000,000 to whip the Zulus, or about $250,000 for each dead Zulu. They are dear Zulus at that price. . Mobile has received the first bale of Alabama cotton. It was classed as low middling, and sold for twelve cents per pound. The “Oid Reliable’' GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE, Wll, LI AM BATTEK FIEJ,I>, (At his old stand,) Respectfully reminds his old friends and the public that he keeps con stantly on hand a large stock of Groceries, Provisions, Tdte., Which he sells at the LOWEST CASH PRICES. His stock consists in part of floitu, meal AND BACON, SUGAR, COFFEE AND TE A, ALL KINDS OF CANNED GOODS, and everything usually kept in a first-class fam ily grocety and provision store. , HIS BAR is supplied with the host Liquors to he found in the market. He also keeps a line assortment of TOBACCO AND CIGARS. 1 lie public is respectfully invited to give him a tna] - j]y24 J. C. & S. F. MILAM, | Commission Merchants, COTTON BUYERS, j Dealers in. Standard Guanos, AGENTS FOR I Metropolitan Works, liiehmond, Va. /AAN FURNISH ANY KIND OF AN EN | and Illy fr ° m lour ' horse P°wer to one hundred SAW AND GRIST MILLS, THRESHERS, And in fact any kind of machinery. Bcellß before purchasing, fig*?- Office at T. A. Foote’s store, West Main street, Car tersville, Ga. ? e ) t2 7 NEW SHEET MUSIC. The undersigned have on hand, received direct from publishers, the best stock of music, BOTH voc a l and ifstrumen ta l, In town. They are also offering their old stock of music at 40 percent, discount from publisher’s prices- Write or call for catalogue. H. M. MOUNTCASTLE & CO., Cartersville, Ga. West Main street, (Clayton's old stand.) H. M. MOUNTCASTLE & CO. (Clayton’s old stand) CARTERSVILLS, 5 V , Georgia. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. MRS. E. TURNER, Home, Gn., Dressmaker Anil dealer in all kinds of PAPER PATTERNS. TTUIUL CUT, FIT AND MAKE ALL KINDS i V of Ladies’ Wear, at most reasonable pri ces. Mrs. Turner lias been at the business 20 years. Give her a call, or send her an order. Satisfaction guaranteed. MRS. E. TURNER, aug7 Broad street, Rome, Ga. vVV .UTR/f', rr( mi_l ELECTOICIT YT Possesses the greatest power known to man, once but little understood and for all time greatly feared, is now made useful and subservient to man. I THE NEW METHOD j__ Of protection against lightning, on the theory and patent of J. C. CHAMBERS, which he has recently discovered, is rapidly taking the place of the old rod. I THE OLD PLAN 1 Of rodding buildings—connecting the rod with the earth—lias been proven unsafe, and even dangerous. The new method places the rod and points on the roof of the house, much after the old style, with Chambers’ Improved Insulators, with no rod running down the side of the house to the earth. 7 RODS AND POINTS 1 Put up on Chambers’ theory, operate as active agent* facilitating the natural laws of electrici ty by a continuous discharge or throwing off the nogatiye electricity yeuty-aUziug the positive in the atmosphere above, and particu larly so during a heavy"'thunder storm, thus re pelling a stroke instead of inviting it. In the event these points should not |throw oil' the negative fast enough and a stroke should take place atorteof these points, it simply runs oft’ at the other points and is disseminated in the at mosphere above where it belongs. I CHAMBERS’ NEW MET HDD J~ Has been examined and thoroughly tested by scientific men, and to be the only correct principle for protection. We have accepted an agency, and are how ready to put up rods on the pi an of the new method. Any one wishing to see this theory' demonstrated, can do so by calling at our store, where we will take pleasure in exhibiting the many advantages it has over the old plan. W, A. WILLIAMS 6c SON, Corner Erwin and West Main Streets, aug7-5m CARTERSVILLE, GA. WEST POINT CADETSHIP. To be Appointed from the Seventh Con gressional District. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 21, 1879. Tlon. W. 11. Felton , M. (?., Cartersville, Ga.: Sir—Vo aw —-**—* a,, ocurmary or War to nominate, at your earliest convenience, a le gally qualified candidate, to appointment as Cadet to the United States Military Acade my, from the Seventh Congressional District of Georgia, who mast be at West Point not later than the 19th of June, 1880, but whose appoint ment is required by law to be made as nearly one y'ear in advance of that date as is practicable. Your immediate attention to the subject and to the terms of the accompanying circular is ear nestly requested. VA*y respectfully, your obedient servant, E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. ISBO CC a * Ct Ed S ar Hubert to graduate June, Iu obedience to the above request of the Sec retary of War, I respectfully Invite every young man who is a bona fide resident of the 7th Con gressional District of Georgia, between the ages of 17 and 22 years, and who may wish to compete for this appointment, to appear before a board of examiners in Cartersville, the first Tuesday in October, 1879. I will nominate the applicant selected by this board, after a rigid and impartial examination. The studies in which thorough proficiency is required, are Orthography, Reading, Writing, Geography, English Grammar, History and Arithmetic. None need apply unless they are well-nigh perfect in these brandies, especially Arithmetic. They must he physically sound and at least five feet in height. I will furnish “regulations” to those applicants who desire them. Very respectfully, W. 11. FELTON. BOARD OF EXAMINERS. Bartow county—Messrs. J. G. Ryals, Theo. E. Smith, Thos. H. Baker, Amos T. Akerman. Catoosa county—Messrs. A. .1 Leet. A. Gra- ham, T. A. W illiams F. C. Church. Cherokee county—Messrs. Marcus Field, 11. W. Newman, W. N. Wilson, P. 11. Brewster. Dade county—Messrs. J. W. Townsend, R. A. Morgan, R. M. Paris. Cobb county—Messrs. W. T. Winn, John O. Gartrell, Gilbert Tennent, Marion Phillips. Chattooga county—Messrs. Wesley Shropshire Joseph T. Hamilton, John Starling, F. Cheney. Floyd coviity—Messrs. G. A. Nunnally, L. J. Jones, Daniel S. Printup, B. l>. Harvey. Gordon county—Messrs. David Ramsaur, H. B. Herrington, G. W. Wells, M. V. Watts. Haralson county—Messrs. Thos. Phil pot, Wal ter Broek, John Tomlinson Dr. Hutchurson. Murray county—Messrs. Jathan Gregory, Boss Bates, S. H. Henry, Dr. Stafford. Paulding county—Messrs. George Lewis, John Cloutz, J. B. Dean, 11. J. Sligh. Polk county—Messrs. Ivey Thoiqpsop, M. Lid dell, R. W. Everett, R. L. Poole. Whitfield county—Messrs. Dawson A. Walker, W. U. Tibbs, W.C. Richardson, W. L. Headrick Walker county—Messrs. I). Farms, Robert Dougherty, Wm, A. Garmany, L. It. Dickey. Any five members of the above hoard shall con stitute a quorum. ESSEX CHOICE, The “Old Reliable” Barber CONTINUES THE TONSORIAL ART. He is now running four chairs—three on the east side of the square, and one over the store of J. A. Stephens, West Main street. This latter shop is in charge of William Johnson, an excel lent young barber As heretofore, Essex guar antes satisfaction, to his customers, amt will leave nothing undone to please them. Call on ; ESSEX CHOICE. “ the NEW DEPARTURE. ” A Nation A T T d ME , ET /^ G of t HE EDU- A L AIIGNAL Roanl of this county the fol lowmr genes of school hooks were a.looted- McGuffie s Readers, Sanford’s Arithmetics, Har 'e> 8 filers and Grammars, Ind Eclectic Geo>-- lateh-'nMhTrednm? 8 b<? % nißhed at the kinds of school mateWal at the Vates No extra charge for ordering anything not in stock - H. M. MOUNTCASTLE A CQ. THE CARTERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL THE FOLLOWING ARE THE TEXT BOOKS used ih the Cartersville High School: .vieGuffeys Readers, Harvey’s Grammars and Cpellers, feclictic Series of Geographies and Lopy Rooks, Sanford’s Arithmetics ana Algebra Chauvenet’s Geometry, Cutter’s Analytic Anat tionaries. R. JOHNSTON. Prin. 1111 $ .S g g * 1111 I'lll $ Grreat Bargains. J. A. ERWIN SON ■ i ARE OFFERING AN ENTIRE NF.W STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS FALL AND WINTER GOODS,’ CONSISTING OF Dry Coods, Clothing, Dry Coods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Boots and Shoes, Crockery, Ac., & c . f Crockery, Ac., & c ., AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICE* TO SUIT THE TIMES. TO SUIT THE TIMES. Call and Examine their Goods and Prices Before Buying. J. A. ERWIN & SON. Cartersville, (la., Sept, 19tli, 1878. ~ * HUE ATLANTA PHONOGRAPH. r- —IS THE- Liveliest, Spiciest, and Sauciest Journal in Georgia. ON TIB A l * EIGHT WEEKS FOR 25 CENTS. IN POLITICS THE PHONOGRAPH 15 A purely An Independent Democratic Journal, Favors a sufficient amount ot national currency to succecsfully carry on the business of the coun try. It is opposed to national banks and bond holders, opposes fraud, humbugs and corrup tion, and takes especial delight in showing up everything which tends to injure the masses. IT IS A PEOPLE’S PAPER. 1 year, $2; 0 months, fl; 3 months, 50 cent.-, cash in advance. Address W. T. CHRISTOPHER, 32 Broad Street (up-stairs), Atlanta. Ga. Fashionable Barber Shop. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, Upstairs , Over Xew York Store , Bank Blocks By JOHN~TAYLOR. Has BEEN IN THE BUSINESS 35 YEARS, and is one of the most accomplished fi - bers in the South. Ilis shop is well and comfort ably furnished. He is the only barber in the State who uses Phalon’s Celebrated Chemical Hair Invigoratorf to prevent baldness and dis eases of the scalp. All who have tried it know it to be a specific. He also uses the celebrated Russian Oouissan Shaving Soap, which is known to be the best soap in the world. It has the invaluable property of preventing pimples and all cutaneous eruptions. To those who shave twice a week, he will fur nish a private soap and lather cup, free of charge. The patronage of the public generally is in vited and respectfully solicited. Polite, courte ous and gentlemanly treatment is observed to ward all, ami satisfaction guaranteoed. .inlylS JOHN T \YT .OR, Proprietor. THE STAR SALOON. BAR AND BILLIARDS. MORT E. PAINE Has oped lor the spring and summer business and will keep always on hand THE VERY FINEST LIQUORS, BRANDIES, WHISKEY AND AVIXEs. Which will be manipulated into fancy drinks of all kinds. flgsp’ Boer on draught. oa gß® L igars of tlie best brands. The public respect fully invited to call. m ayl COTTON CIN REPAIRINC. All who have cotton gins orotii er machinery to repair oan call on the un dersigned, who is fully prepared to do such work. He also does repairing on guns, locks, umbrellas, aud nearly anytluug that vou may desire to have mended, and works on alf kinds of metals. A large lot of keys of all kinds on hand ami for sale cheap. Shop on West Main street. jly2s-tf JNO F. HARWELL. The Cartersville High School. ATTILL be OPEN FOR THE ADMISSION TV of pupils MONDAY, UTH OF AUGUST, 1879. and continue four mouths, tuition payable monthly. Patrons are earnestly desired to send their children at the beginning of the term. Rates of tuition aro from $2 to $4 per month, ac cording to grade. Patrons will receive the bene fit of the public fund. R. JOHNSTON, Priu. DU F F G R FEN HOLS E , Dalton, Ga. THE BEST and CHEAPEST HOTEL On the Kennesaw Route. BREAKFAST AND SUPPER HOUSE FOR PASSENGERS. Special Attention Given to tlie Comfort and Con venience of Lady Passengers and guests. Reading and Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers. Board per day, $2.00; Meals, 50 cts. Railroaders, County and Stock men, half THOMPSON’S ~ Restaurant and Ladies’ Cafe, (4 Whitehall St., James Block) ATLANTA, : : : GEORGIA. Great Reduction in Prices. Meals at all Hours of the Day at 35 cts. R E CREAMS AND ALL THE DELICACIES OF TIIE SEASON. The ladies’ cafe is elegantly fitted up aud is one of the popular resorts for the ladies. ai ’ rl7 B- G. THOMPSON. ST. JAMES HOTEL, (Cartersvflle, Georgia.) THE UNDERSIGNED HAS RECENTLY _L taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It has been newly furnished aud shall be first-class in all respects. SAMPLE ROOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. Favorable terms to traveling theatrical com pames. [.tan 1(1] L. C. HOSS. Propjetor. STOVES X TINWARE. JOHN ANDERSON, (Opposite Curry’s Ding Store.) HAS IN STORE AND FOR SALE A large lot of Tinware, Stores and Cutlery. Also, the celebrated Fly Fans, Tubs and Buck eta-which he will sell in exchange for Rags, Beeswax, Feathers, Butter, Eggs and Chickens. He sells goods cheaper than ever. junel9 PHOTO OIL A 111 S ! YOUNG’S GALLERY, Shorter Block, : ; ; • • Rome, Ga. Life size (bust) for only ten dol lars; half life size only five dollars. His work is all strictly first-class. Makes copies of allsortsof pictures auv size and character de sired. june29 H. M. MOUNTCAStILE & CO., —DEALERS IX— Books, Music and Stationery, AYest Main St., Cartersville, Ga.
