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KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION - . One copy one year, - - - . f 2 00 One copy six months. .... j one copy three months, - - . DO CLUB RATES. Five copies one year, - - - - $8 75 Ten copies one year, - - - ]. r > oo Twenty copies one year, ... 25 oo Fifty copies one year, .... 50 00 To be paid for invarriably in advance. All orders for the paper must be addressed to THE FREE PRESS. I ) rofesßional Cards. .TAMES It. CONYERS, AT r V <) It JNT KY-AT- Tj AAV AND Notary Public, < aktesviu.k, : : : : Georgia. (Oiliee: Rank block, up-stairs.) 11.1. PR \< TI( E IN THE COURTS OF > \ the Cherokee and adjoining circuits. Prompt attention given to all business. Col lect ion ma lea specialty. JuneSO- ly K. B. TKII'PK. J. M. NKKI.. TR TP PE & NEEL, AT'J'O NTJG YS-AT-LA W, CARTERSVILI.E, GA. \tf ILL PRACTICE IN ALL TIIE COURTS, \ \ both State and Federal, except Bartow •oiinty criminal court. J. M. Neel alone will iiraetice in said last mentioned court. Otliee in northeast corner of court house building. 1e1>27 j SO. 1.. MOON. v DOC OLA 8 WIKI.E. MOON & AVI RLE, A t t orneys-at- Jj aw, CAItTKRSVII.I.E, GA. Ijt&‘ oiliee in Bank Block, over the Postoflice. fef)27 AV. T. AVOFFORD, A r r r r O If IST Td Y-A. T - I.AAV, —and- DE AL ER IN REAL ESTATE, CASS STATION, BARTOW COUNTY, GA. It. AV. MURPHEY, A T T OJf NF.Y-AT- LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE (up-stairs) in the briek building, cor ner of Main & Erwin streets. julylß. J. A. BAKER, A T TORNF.Y-AT-LAAV, CARTERSVILLE, GA. \TTILL practice in all the courts of Bartow \ V and adjoining counties. Prompt atten tion given to all business entrusted to nis care, otliee in Bank Block over the post office, j ii l yis. E. I). GRAHAM. A. M. POUTE. GUAIIAM & FOUTE, A U' V O If IST KY S -A. r F -LA W. C VRTERSVII.LE, GA. Praetiee in till the courts of Bartow county, the superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the supreme Courts at Atlanta. office west side public Square, up-stairs over AV. \V. Rich & Co’s. Store, second door south of Postoflice. July 18. T. W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JB. MILNER & HARRIS, ATTO lINEYS-AT-LA W, CARTERSYILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. july!B F. M. JOHNSON, Dentist, (Office over Stokely & Williams store.) CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. I WILL FI I. j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH, and put in teeth, or do any work in my line at prices to suit the times. Work al. w arranted. Refer to my pat rons all over the county. augls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON. JOHN T. OWEN, (At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,) CARTERSVILLE, GA. -\ A T ILL sell Watcnes, Clocks and Jewelry. \y Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as represented. All work done by me warranted to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julylS. CHAS. B. WILLINCHAWI, Stenographic Court Reporter. [ROME JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.| I MAKE A CLEAN RECORD OF CASES, taking down the testimony entire; also, ob jections of attorneys, rulings of the court, and the char e of the court, without stopping the w itness or otherwise delaying the judicial pro ceedings. Charges very reasonable and satis faction guaranteed. Traveler’s Q-uide. COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION. On and after December 16th, 1878,the following schedule will be run by the Steamer# MAGNO LIA or ETOWAH BILL: J.euve Rome Tuesday Bam Arrive at Gadsden \Y ednesday .... Gam Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm Arrive at Rome Thursday spm Leave Rome Friday Sam Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am Arrives at Grecnsport 9am Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm J. M. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup’t. ROME RAILROAD COMPANY. On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this Road will run as follows: IIAY TRAIN—EVERY DAY. Leave Rome Arrive at Rome 12:00 m SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMMODATION. Leave Rome 5:00 p m Arrive at Rome _• _• •_ • _8 ; 0C pjm CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): Leave Cartersville 7:40 a m Arrive at Stilestoora 8:30 a m Arrive at Taylorsville . . . . • • 8:52 am Arrive at Roekmart 10:00 a m Arrrive at terminus 10:o0am RETURNING. Leave terminus 3:00 pm Arrive at Roekmart 3:40 p m \rrive at Taylorsville 4:45 pm Arrive at Stilesboro 5:13 pm A arrive at Cartersville . . . . . . 6:00 pm WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. Tlie following is the present passenger sched ule: NIGHT PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 3:00 pm Leave Cartersville 4:53 pm Leave Kingston 5:19 p m Leave Dalton 7:10 p m Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm NTGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 5:25 pm Leave Dalton 7:10 p m Leave Kingston 8:39 p m Leave Cartersville 9:05 pm .Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 p m DAY PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 5:20 am Leave Cartersville . . . .' . • • - < :23 a m Leave Kingston 7:49 am Leave Dalton 9:2lam Arrive at Chattanooga 10:56 am DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 6:15 am Uieave Dalton 8:10 am Leave Kingston 9:43 am Leave Cartersville 10:11am Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 pm CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP. Leave Atlanta 5:10 p m Arrive at Cartersville * 7:22 pm CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—DOWN. Leave Cartersville 6:05 am Arrive at Atlanta a m COUCH HOUSE, (Kingston, Georgia.) rpnis LARGE AND' COMFORTABLE J House is now kept by W. W. Rainey. Ihe traveling public will iiud good, plain accommo dations. Parties wishing board through the summer will find Kingston one of the healthiest and quietest localities in Upper Georgia. Three nr four families can get comfortable rooms in view of trains. Terms very reasonable, iI V 2S. W. W. RALVKY. p li o T O Cx 11 APH S ! YOUNG’S GALLERY, Shnrfpr lilock * I • • • Rome* J IKE SIZE (RUST) FOR ONLY TEN DOL -1 j lare; half life size only live dollars. His work is all strictly first-class. Makes copies of allsorts of pictures any size and character de sired. J"ne29 FOB SALE OB EXCHANGE. rpilE “CENTRAL HOTEL,” ADAIRSVILLE I Georgia — a three-story brick building; large yards, garden and orchard attached. Address J. C. MARTIN, ded9-tt Adairsville, Ga, VOLUME 11. E. J. Hale k Son’s STEPHENS’ HISTORY A Compendium of the History of the United States. For Schools and Colleges, By lion. ALEX. H. STEPHENS. (513 pp. 12m0.) 17 MURRAY ST li E ET, NEW VO RK. ‘’The pith and marrow of our history.”— Er,- President Fillmore. “Straightforward, vigorous, interesting anil im pressive.”—.V. Vhr Mian Union. “Its tone calm and judicial: its style clear and good. We recommend it to lie” read by all Northern men."—Boston Courier. “A work of high excellence; well adapted to supply a long felt w ant incur country.”—Con necticutt Schoo Journal, {lion. W. V. Fowler, “Worthy of high praise. It will of necessity challenge attention everywhere.’*—JV. I'. Eve ning Pont. ‘‘Among tne notable books of the aae.”—Chica go Mail. “Narrative, impartial; tone calm and dispas sionate: style masterly.”— Louisville Home and School. “A model compend.”— A ngusta Chronicle and Sentinel. “Everything necessary to a perfect handbook.” —Goldsboro Messenger. “Broad enough tor all latitudes.”— Kentudky Methodist. “The best work of its kind now extant.”—Mem phis Farm and Home. “A success in every way.”— Wilmington Star. “Destined to become the standard of historic truth and excellence for centuries to come.”— President Wilts, Oglethorpe University. “The method admirable.” Ev-Gov. llerschell V. Johnson. “Should And a place in all libraries.”— Ev-Gov. C. J. Jenkins. “A most important addition to American litera ture.”—Prof. It. M. Johnston, Haiti more. “Read it; study it; heed it.”— Prof. E. A . Steed, Mercer University. “Fairness, fulness, accuracy.”— Prof. J. J. Brantly, Mercer University. UNIFORM SERIES OF Hchool Books. To the Patrons and Teachers of Bartow County: At THE REQUEST OF PROMINENT CITI ZENS and Teachers, the Board of Educa tion has had under consideration for some time the adoption of a UNIFORM SERIES OF SCHOOL BOOKS. The people claim this as a protection for them selves against too frequent changes, The teach ers ask it as a means of classifying their stu dents, and rendering more efficient service, with greater facility to themselves, and benefit to their students. All parties ask it as a means of se curing a reduction in retail prices to purchasers. In answer to these demands the Board has made a thorough examination, and after consul tations with leading teachers, have this day adopted the following series: McGuffey’s Ist reader, : : : :8c ex. .15reti “ 2d “ 15 “ .30 “ “ 3d “ 22 “ -40 “ “ 4th “ 27 “ .55 “ “ sth “ 40 “ .80 Sanford’s Prim- Arithmt’c 14 “ .27 “ “ Int’md’te Arithm’c 22 “ .45 “ “ C. School “ 40 “ .80 “ “ Higher “ 65 “ $1.25 “ “ Ele’m’ry Algebra- 05 “ 1.25 “ Harvey’s Language Lessons 12 “ *25 “ “ Ele’m’ry Grammar 20 “ .40 “ “ English Grammar 40 “ .75 Eclectic Prim. Geograpny 33 “ .00 “ “ Georgraphy, No. 2 00 “ 1.25 “ Harvey’s Primary Speller 8 “ .15 “ “ Graded “ 11 “ .20 “ These prices are NOT introductory, hut PElt- MAN ENT. The publishers given written guar antee that tiicse prices shall not he raised at any time. Those having old hooks can bring them to \V. H. WIKLE & CO., and get the new book of same grade at HALF PRICE, as given in column 1. It makes no difference how badly torn the old hook may he. We earnestly urge the co-operation of patrons in carrying out this adoption. W. T. WOFFORD, President. julyl7-4t THEO, E. SMITH, C. S. C. SCHOOL AND COLLESE TEXT BOOKS. PUBLISHED BY Iverson, Illakeman, Taylor k Cos., NEW YORK, ft. E. PARK, General Agent, THIS series comprises among others, tlie fol lowing well-known STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS: New Graded Readers, Robinson’s Mathematics, Spencerian Copy Books, Well’s Scientific Works, Ridd 1 e’s A stron ii es. Dana’s Geology, Woodbury’s German, Kerbs Grammar, Webster’s Dictionary, Swinton’s Histories, Swinton’s Word Books, Swinton’s Geographies, Pasquell’s French, Gray’s Botanies, Bryant & Stratton’s Book-keeping, Cathcart’s Literary Reader, etc., etc. Correspondence respectfully solicted. Address ROBERT E. PARK, General Agent. Care J. W. Burke & CO., Macon, Georgia. CARRIAGES. BUGGIES and WAGONS, B. H. JONES, Cartersville, Georgia. I FEEL JUSTLY PROUD OF THE REPU tation aw arded by an appreciative people. I do a square, honest business as near as f know how, and endeavor to give every one the w orth of Ins money. All work warranted, not for a year only, but for any reasonable time. I say it, and defy contradiction, there is No Better Work Made in America than I am Building. I have a Repository in Rome, in charge of Mr. W. L. Whitely, in old Odd Fellow's’ building, corner above new Masonic Temple. Wagons, Buggies, Ac., kept by him are just w hat they are represented to be. All sold under warrantee. I also have a shop in Rome, at the old stand of D. Lindsey A Cos., run by R. L. Williams, where new work and all kinds of repairing will he done at prices to suit the times. Give us your trade. mciifi 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 lie done for by any other house. Parties desiring portraits can send photograph, with description of complexion, hair, eyes and dress. jtmel2-6m ACTUAL BUSINESS I Students on Change Moore’s BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA. The best practical business school in the country. Students can enter at any time. Total expenses for three months, includ ing tuition, stationery, hoard, etc., slls. Send for circulars. B. F. MOORE, President. aprs4-3m. PILES AND FISTULA CURED DK. J. S. BEAZLEY, At Stilesboro, Bartow county, Ga., and DR. A. G. BEAZLEY. At Crawfordville, Ga., MAKE A SPECIALTY OF DISEASES OF the Rectum. They will treat 1 istula, Ulcer ation. Prolapsus, etc., of the bowels and will guarantee a perfect cure in a short while in ev erv chsc of piles without the use of the knife and very little pain. Will point to cases cured or give the best of reference if desired. All cler gymen treated gratis. mch2< THE FREE PRESS. ! THE DEATH OF J. WILKES BOOTH. The Pursuits and Discovery of Men Who Killed Lincoln—Boston Corbett’s Shot —Distributing the Reward—Some Inci dents of the Chase Belated. A reporter of the New Orleans Picay une has recently interviewed Captain Edward P. Doherty, who commanded the detachment that captured Booth and Harold after the assassination of Presi dent Lincoln, that of that officer's story ; of the pursuit and its insult appeared in the Picayune of August 18. The story of (he surrender of Harold and the 1 shooting of Booth in the barn near Bow j ling Green is told as follows: “After Garrett had designated the di rection of the barn, Captain Doherty said to Sergent Boston Cirbett: ‘Dismount your men, detail a few to watch the house, and bring the remainder here.’ Captain Doherty then surrounded the barn with bis men, and, going to the front door, placed (lie lighted candle which he held in his hand for some time, near the front entrance of the barn, and in the vicini ty of a large crack or opening. Unlock ing the door, Captain Doherty called upon those in the barn to come out and surrender, but no answer was made to this and subsequent frequent and loud demands of a like character. Captain Doherty then passed around among the sentinels who surrounded the barn, when he was informed that whispering and the moving of hay had been heard from the inside.” “Captain Doherty then said:‘lf you don’t come out I’ll set fire to the building and burn jam out.’ As there was no answer even to this, Captain Doherty or dered Corporal Newgarten to pile some shavings and hay in the opening and set fire to it. While he was piling it up a voice said to the corporal: ‘lf you come back there I’ll put a bullet through you.’ Captain Dohertj r who was standing near Newgarten, then quietly ordered him to desist, and determined to wait till day tight before making any further demon strations.” At this time a long conversation took place between Captain Doherty and J. Wilkes Booth. The former, after hear ing the threat of the latter, called again for a surrender, when Booth replied: ‘Who do you take us for V Captain Doher ty responded: ‘lt don’t make any differ ence who I take you for, I’m going to arrest you.’ Then Booth said: “Boys fetch me a stretcher, another stain in our glorious banner.’ “Walking around the barn and return ing near the door, Capt. Doherty heard whispered conversation between Booth and Harrold from the inside. Bootli then said aloud; “I am crippled and alone; give me a chance for my life; draw your men up at twenty-five paces, and I will come out.’ “Capt. Doherty replied - T didn’t come here to light, but to capture j r ou. 1 have fifty men here, and can do it. “In the meantime Harrold had ap proached the door, when Capt. Doherty said to him, ‘Let me see your hands, when Harrold put both hands out through the door, and Capt, Doherty seizing them, handed him over to the cor poral at the door. “While this conversation was going on and as Capt. Doherty was in the act of taking Harrold out of the front door, the barn had been fired in the rear. The fiarnes burst suddenly forth. Booth, who had left his position in the barn to the right of the opening referred to above, near the candle, took a position in the center of the barn facing the door, and raising his carbine, pointed it in the di rection ot Harrold and Capt. Doherty, when Sergt. Corbett, avlio was stationed at one of the openings at the barn to the left of Booth, observing the movement, leveled a large-size Colt’s revolver at Booth and fired intending to hit hi the arm tor the purpose of disabling but the ball entered his neck, about one inch from the same point that Bootli shot Presi dent Lincoln. “On hearing the shot, and being at the time ignorant of the movement or intention of Booth, Captain Doherty supposed that he had shot himself rather that surrender, when the officers rushed into the barn, and bj- the light of the burning building saw Booth with the carbine betwen his legs, one of his crutches having droped, and Booth in the act of falling forward, when Cap tain Doherty caught him with both arms around his body and carried him out side of the barn and laid him down, but tlie heat becoming too intense Cap tain Doherty ordered him removed under the varanda of the Garrett mansion. “Soldiers were then dispatched in dif ferent directions for doctors, but only one, Dr. Urquat, could be found he ar- ; riving about 9 a. m., and after probing! the wound, pronounced it fatal, the ban having ranged upward, cutting the vital part. “From the time that Booth was shot, 5 o’clock, to the time he expired, two hours later, he spoke but once, and that was to Captain Doherty, shortly before 6o’clock when he said to him, ‘Hands.’ Captain Doherty lifted up his hands, when Booth looked at them for an instant, and, ex claimed, ‘Useless, useless.’ A short time after this he became unconscious and so remained until lie expired. “Captain Doherty after wrapping the body of Bootli in his saddle blanket, sew ed the blanket together with his own hands and having placed the body on a cart which was obtained from an old negro residing about two miles distant, proceeded with the body and the prison er, Harrold, to Belle Plain, where the Ide was awaiting the return of the com mand, which arrived at six p. m., when the Ide proceeded to Washington, where the body of Bootli and the prisoner, Harrold, were turned over to the officers of the U nited States iron-clad monitor Moutauk, Captain Doherty having re ceived orders from the department commanders so to do. This was at 3 o’clock on the morning of the 27tli. “In reference to the different state ments that Booth was never captured nor killed, and that he is still alive to-day. Captain Doherty says that it is the sheer est nonsense in the world, as in the first place, Captain Doherty knew J. Wilkes Bootli personally, and was in his com pany at the National hotel in Washing ton about two months previous to the as sassination. In the second place at the post-mortem, examination, held on the 27th of April, Booth was fully identified by Dr. May, his attending physician, who had performed an operation upon his neck, and by Mr. Dawson proprietor of the National hotel, where lie boarded during his residence in Washington, and also by well known citizens, to the full satisfaction of the government. “In the third place, after the body of Booth was buried in the cell in tlie peni tentiary at the arsenal at Washington, the remains were delivered over to his re latives four years later, upon application to President Johnson, and now they rest in the family vault near Baltimore, Md., thus proving that the members of his own family recognize the fact that the body lying there is the last mortal remains of J. Wilkes Booth. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1879. “Harrold was tried -convicted and hanged with Payne, Atzerot and Mrs. Surratt, in July 1863. “*\ total reward of $150,000 offered by the government, the city of Washington and the city of Baltimore. The reward of SIOO,OOO offered by the government was paid, but those offered by the cities of Washington and Baltimore were re pudiated. Captain Doherty entered suit in the United States district court for the District of Columbia to recover the $20,000 offered by the city of Wash ington had no authority to offer the re ward. “Captain Doherty appealed the case to tlie supreme court of the United States, where it is now pending, and from whence a decision i< expected to tie reached this j'ear. In the case of the claim against the city of Baltimore which ottered $30,- 000 for the arrest of the assassin, Cap tain Doherty did not sue to recover, the mayor and alderman telling him point blank that they would not pay it as tlie reward was offered under a previous administration. This claim has now elapsed bj r limitation. “Of the SIOO,OOO offered by the gov ernment, $75,000 was.paid on the basis of prize money in the navy. The com mand consisted of twenty-six enlisted men, two citizens (detectives) and one commissioned officer. The commission appointed to distribute the money consis ted of Judge Advocate-General Ilolt E. D. Townsend, adjutant-general of the army, who awarded to Captain Do herty $?5,000; to each of the citizens de tectives, $4,000; to Sergeant Wandell, $2,200 each commission deciding that tlie fact of Corbett having shot Booth did not entitle him to more than the non-com missioned officer of the same rank who was also present at the capture. “General Lafayette C. Baker, chief detective of the war department was held to be the same as an admiral, who detach es a ship and orders it to another squad ron. In stansitu that ship captures a prize, and Captain Doherty being in position as captain of the ship received two-twentieths of the whole amount, while the admiral, who in this case was General Baker, received one twentieth, or $3,750. The remainder of $75,000 was distributed pro rata among the men. “Capt. Doherty was informed from high authority that ‘a wheel barrow of claims’ were put in for this reward, al most every detective in the United States representing that he was entitled to a share. The adjustment of this mass of claims occupied the members of tlie com mittee a little over a year before they could determine who were entitled to the reward.” GENERAL TOOMBS. [White Sulphur Springs Correspondence Rich mond Southern Intelligencer.] Here can be seen, also, men who have helped to rule the destiny of tlie nation, i Here, also, are men of heart and men | of mind, men of wealth and men of! worth. Among this varied collection j is one famous among southerns, a man Called, in familiar southern vernacular, 1 “Bob Toombs, of Georgia,” not seeking notoriety, but conspicuous in presence I and bearing. He kept himself rather j close, but the writer, m walking along i the piazza some days since lazily smok- ! ing a cigar, heard a round “By God, ! sir,” roll forth with an emphasis pecu- i liar to some of onr “unreconstructed rebels,” and turning rapidly, we stood at the elbow of General Toombs. No man can Help seeing him without a second look, and no man looking can help listen in to the “old man eloquent,” and so did avc. Carelessly graceful in posture, his portly fojm rose six feet and more into the air, rather a short, fat neck, upon which sat, with an air of unsubdued boldness, a massive head, long iron grey locks fell about his neck and ears, j producing a somewhat picturesque shag- ! giness of appearance; a black slouch hat, peaked and with lowered brim, was drawn down upon his forehead until it touched the shaggy eye-brow beneath which shines clear, fearless brown ej r es, ! which rested upon the listeners, with flashes, carrying according t> the utter ances of the talker. From between ; these eyes springs a large straight nose rather full at the end, and shelving off into the wide, thin nostrils, which quiv ering and dilating as the words rolled j forth, showed the eloquence of the proud, i strong lips, which never j'et learned to ! speak a submissive word. Beneath the ! wide, thick-lipped mouth is a broad, 1 heavy, double chin, wflteh rolls away be- ! neath the ample folds of an old-fashioned 1 standing.collar. Except for a thin tuft ! of beard between the two chins, the face is clean. Miss Rachel Snodgrrss, 19 years of age, ! of Westmoreland county Pa., dropped dead one day last week under strange j circumstances. Shortly before the oc- j curence of the deplorable affair, it is said j that a little niece of Miss Snodgrass had strayed into the back yard of her aunt’s residence, and presently wandered out on a plank which had been suspended across a deep well. Here the little ; one, unconscious of its peril, sat astride the board playing. A few minutes later Miss Snodgrass, who had missed the child, started out to look for it. Going to the well she was about rescuing the child, when it began to cry, and at the same time made an effort to crawl off the plank. This was so terrifying that Miss Snodgrass was overcome by her nervous excitement and fell the ground and had already expired when she was discovered by her parents. The child was rescued without injuiy. Rev. 11. Eggers, pastor of the St. John’s Lutheran Church, at Pittsburg, Pa., on Friday evening last attended tlie rehersal of the choir in the church, and in stepping into a side • room for a slate, fell through a hatchway, which had been left open, to the basement a distance of eighteen feet. No one knew at the time that he had fallen. He got up and went up into the church and sat down on a chair. On of the members of the choir saw that lie was looking strangely, as ked what was the matter. The only re ply was that he had fallen. He was ta ken to his home, and died of concussion of the brain, caused of course by the fall. A peculiar case of trance has caused great excitement in Hereford, England. It is that of a young girl who had been laid out for dead, and for whose inter ment all preparations had been made, when it was discovered that she was in a trance. For three weeks before that she had partaken of no food, and gince her recovery from the trance she has had her tongue protruding, the eyeballs rigidly fixed, while the frame at times been hysterically agitated. Prof. Burnham, the astronomer, has gone to California to select a point at which he will locate the Lick Observa tory. It is likely that a site will be chosen in Santa Clara county, forty miles south of San Francisco. NO BULLDOZING IN GEORGIA. Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, has written i a very emphatic letter of denial to Gov. I Garcelon, of Maine, in regard to certain reports recently circulated in the latter | state, the burden of these reports being that in the last two years a large number of men have been lynched in Georgia be cause they belonged p> the Methodist church, voted tin* republican ticket, and interested themselves in the education of the colored people. Governor Colquitt says: “l might make summary work in dis posing of this portent. ions "array of charges so grave by giving you my word, wheth er spoken as a plain citizen of Georgia, or as an officer representing the whole state, tllat a more unjust or inexcusable falsification of the condition of things as existing here could not have been fram ed in words. But, to make mj’ attention the more forcible to those not acquainted with our true status, let me add that the Methodist church, so far as members and social position go, can hardly be said to be second to any other denomination in the state; that 73,000 colored children are now on our school rolls, and the expense of their education is on a very large measure borne by the white tax paj r ers of the state, and that we have in success ful operation a college in this city, called tlie Atlanta university, whose chains give exclusive attention to the education of colored youths. I myself very recent ly appointed the board of examination to visit this*institution at its last commence ment, and am gratified to be able to tell you that this board, composed of names of the highest respectability, have made a most encouraging report. “As to intimidation and violence in curred by reason of voting the republi can ticket, let me assure you this is news to us. We have two colored members in the present legislature, and one of these holds a seat which was contested by a white man and a award ed bj r a committee on elections every member of which, I believe, is a white man and a democrat. We are moving on in peace, and the whites and blacks in Georgia are working harmoniously to efface the scars which strife has left. Can we not be let alone in this good work ? We beg to be let alone, if others cannot find it in their heart to encourage us and bid us God speed. While I have the hon or to fill the chair of chief magistrate there will never be cause in Georgia for the weakest to appeal to a ‘foreign flag’ for the privilege of enjoying any right which belongs to the citizens under the law. Their rights all shall have without fear or molestation. I make the prom ise and give guaranty with the entire strength of the public arm and public opinion of Georgia to back me.” “OH, CARRY ME BACK.” Kansas City Times] Independence, Montgomery County, ! Kansas, August 16, 1879.—1 am here : and desire to return to my old home, ! Hazlehurst, Miss. I am a young man with a wife and four children—oldest child 9 years of age, youngest 1. I know Mr. H. 11. Hogg and J. I*. Mathews, they will remember me. This writing is on account of seeing the great excur sion in the Kansas City Times of the 15th. L desire to return to mj r old home my native home, my native south, where my heart is and my affections will ever lin ger. ‘ I am without means to return, work is very hard to get, prices low, money very, very scarce. 11l hid the means my body would soon be in old Mississippi. Please help me to return in any way, flat car train, or any way. I do not wish to winter here. OH ! help me. This intended for Mr. Ilogg, Mr. Hubbard. Mr. Mathews or any of the excursion party, or any good perso.i who will help a poor colored man in distress. Very respectfully and humbly, Brice Draper colored. DOWN IN DIXIE. Vicksburg, Miss., is to have anew pa per. Small-pox is rampant in San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio, Texas, has a lady post master. Cotton is beginning to open fast in Ar kansas. San Antonio, Texas, has opened an im migration association. New York is raising money for the Memphis fever sufferers. Crops in Texas are all about twelve days earlier than usual this season. Mrs. General J. B. Hood died in New Orleans last week of yellow fever. The Amite river in Louisiana is to be j surveyed, and will be made navigable. The Sunday amusement in Baton Rouge, La., is balloon ascensions. This has been the finest season that North Carolina summer resorts have ever had. A farm in Warren county, Virginia, j assessed at $2,700 has just been sold for j $6,000. t The fruit crop of Winchester, Va., is j the most abundant one for years. Madison county, Ala., will harvest a wheat crop of 100,000 bushels. The Wesson factory at Wesson, Miss., pays out $2,000 per month to employees. The earnings of the Shreveport, Vicks burg and Texas railroad are reduced about SI,OOO a week by quarantines. North Carolina has 123 lodges of good templars in good standing, with a total membership of 3,610. The new steeple of the First Presby terian church in Wilmington, North Car olina, is 160 feet high. The salt spray thrown up by the late storm at Beaufort, North Carolina, has killed nearly all the trees there. The largest peach crop of Maryland this season was that of the late Colonel Wilkins—7o,ooo baskets. The New England Colon}* which will be started in Tennessee, will settle on 50,000 acres of good land. A force of 100 men now patrol the suburbs of Memphis day and night to watch out for thieves and incendiaries. Hancock county, Ky., farmers who posted their lands two years ago have j their corn crops literalty eaten up bj T squirrels. New Iberia, La., is running mills, fac tories, foundries, and cotton mills are be ing put in order ready to gin the new crop. The drops along the Alabama great southern railroad are in splendid condi tion. Corn looks unusually well. The New Orleans mint is now turning out silver dollars as fast as the coin ma chine can be run. About 350,000 of tlie dollars will be coined during this month. Tlie Georgian who opposes the inves tigations now going on in Atlanta, need not apply for office. The people will be afraid to trust him. —filporta Ishmaelite. ANNA BERGER MARRIED—NO BELLS BUT WEDDING BELLS FOlt HER. j Dramatic News] Miss Anna Teresa Berger has for sev eral years past been the princi pal attraction of the Berger Family, one ; of the most successful combinations which | travel. She is a comely little lady, well informed, very clever, and a general fovorite among those who know her. Mr. Leander 8. Linch, better known as Leigh Lynch, is on the other hand a well known agent, and a man of indefatigable indus try. For two years and a half Mr. Lynch sincerely loved Miss Berger, and for some time Miss Berger has returned the affection. As this affected ripened and grew the other members of the Berger Family became alarmed. The did not want to see Anna Teresa married, for if she left the company it would mean the loss of their prestige. They therefore set about investigating Mr. Lynch's character, and found that in some places and to some people he owed money. This fact was exaggerated into a crime, and everything that could be detrimen tal to Mr. Lynch was carried to Miss Ber ger’s ears. The course of true love in this instance ran smooth, and the brave little woman, instead of lending an ear to to the stories against the man she loved turned a deaf ear, and proclaimed her af fection for him. This of course, made poor Leigh Lynch tabooed in it, for even his visits and his letters were intercepted. But love is miraculously ingenious, and in spite of all he succeeded in occasional}' seeing her and writing her as well. Af ter a long tour Fred Berger and his sis ter, Anna Teresa, arrived in this city a little over week ago. Lynch was in Chicago. lie saw her. lie wooed and and finally won. On Tuesday after l noon Anna Berger left the hotel in a carriage. At Dean’s on Broadway, she met Mr. Lynch. A mutual friend was sought, and the three got into the car riage and drove down Seventeenth street to Second Avenue, alighting at the house of the Rev. Mr. Gooasell. In ten minutes he made them one. In her little jacket and plain summer-dress few* brides can look prettier than Miss Ber ger, and few brides went more bravely through an ordeal which, in this case, re quired an extra amount of courage. The parties then drove to their new residence on Twenty-ninth street. —Mrs. Lynch leaves the stage henceforth, and she not only leaves the stage, but she makes no i demand whatever on her family for the amount she has earned as a member of j the Bergers. This course was the ad vice of her husband, and who said other wise people might say he married her for money. I hear a great deal of talk here about annexation. This question has already been lightly discussed by the press in the j Tinted States, but you would be surpris ed to know how seriously it is discussed here. They discuss and compare the two forms of government; it is not a rare thing to find Canadians more democratic than the “statesmen,” and they are not at all backward in advocating annexa tion. Indeed, it is talked on the streets, and I have seen it hinted at in the press. Men have, in my presence and hearing, pictured In glowing colors the benefits that would follow annexation, and have strongly and openly advocated it. I think if the people of the United States only knew how ripe and ready is the sen timent in Canada for annexation, my compatriots would be moving in the mat ter, I think I can safely say, from the observations I have thus far been able to make, that Canada is ready. —Bob Bur dette's letter from Canada. In consequence of the large amount of money seeking profitable investment, I he mania for speculating in railroad and mining stocks and in “futures” in cotton and provisions is almost epidemic. Now and then a fortunate man hits the mar ket just right and secures a handsome re- I turn, but in the majority of the cases the inexperienced speculator finds his mar gin exhausted and his money lost. Most of this speculation is pure gambling, with the chances less in favor of the player than in lottery invesments. And in ad dition to the risk or loss the business is demoralizing, as is strikingly shown by recent disclosures in Fall River. Those fortunate people with money to invest are wisest who are content with the small but sure returns of good bonds and mortgages, or who buy desirable real es tate at tbe present low rates. — Hart ford <?onront. * ■+■ • An asylum for aged domesticated ani mals has just been opened by an inhabi- ! tent of Gonesse, in France. It already contains a cow thirty-five years of age, a pig aged twenty-five, and an eighteen j year old goat. The senior member of this family is, however, a mule. lie is j forty years of age. Ndxt comes a spar row, whose summers number thirty-one; 1 twenty-eight years of life have been granted to a god fish, and a guinea fowl and a goose have respectively reached the ages of twelve and thirty-seven years. The republicans of North Carolina want to send one of their number—a col ored man named Harris—to Ohio to take j the stump and follow up Gov. Zeb Vance in his campaign in that state. Harris is | said to be very glib with the tongue, and | a rip-roaring stump orator. The repub lican committee in Washington is willing that Harris should go, but no response has yet been received from the republi can managers in Ohio to his request. - • Since Queen Victoria’s accession to the i throne, sixteen women have been hanged l in England. Only one teinale has been executed in America during that time, ; | and her hanging ruined half a dozen | statesmen’s reputations. American gal lantry is as conspicuous upon the gallows as in the street cars.— Pioneer Press. The Pineer Press evidently refers to Mrs. Surratt. But Georgia had a case of this kind during Gov. Smith’s administration. Susan Eberhart was the woman’s name. i The commissioner of internal revenue I reports that the tax on matches produced Ia revenue, during the last fiscal year, of ; three and a quarter million dollars —an ' increase over any previous year. From | five-eighths to three-fourths of the price j. of matches is due to the tax. We import no matches now, but are exporting them to a large extent. Congressman Reagan, of Texas, has | serious fears that the greenbackers will I carry Texas at the next election, although | Gov. Roberts swept the state last year by a majority of 80,000 in a total vote of about 237,000. This is strange in a no toriously hard money circulating state. An Ohio correspondent of the New York Herald sums up the political situa tion thus: There is no telling about the ! legislature; the democrats have as fair I chances for that as the republicans. But j the democratic state ticket has at present a tinge of indigo. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will le inserted at the rates of One Dollar imt inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents tor each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. Space. 1 mo. 3 nios. G mos. 1 year. One inch, $2 50 |5 00 VSO Do Two inches, 375 750 13 50 IS on Three inches, 500 It* 00 17 541 25 00 Four inches, 025 12 50 22 50 32 o*' Fourth column 750 J 5 06 25 00 -to ini Half column, 15 oo 25 oo to oo 60 oo One column. 20 oo to oo (to oo NUMBER 8. THE FARMER’S JOKE. Tramp! tramp tram! and a farmer with solid okl-fashiond feet, and hands big : enough to cover a Sunday school excur sion, came into the editorial room of this paper to say: I “Howdy ? I’ve walked down from the market to give you the pcrtiekelcrs of a good joke.” ' “All ri gh t—jiroeeed. ’' “Yen know them lightning rod fel lers?” observed the old man as he dropp ed into a chair. “Yes—heard of them.” “Well, you know they're purty tutt sot. Been after me more'll twenty years. I've got signs out all along the road warning ’em to keep oil' the plack, but t’other day one of the ehrps driv right up the gate, big as life." “Did, eh?” ‘,Yes, he did, and 'fore I could git my tongue to going he find about a thousand feet of rod out of the wagon and was ready to put it up on the barn.” “What cheek 1" “I guess ’twas, but purtv soon 1 went for him. I had made up my mind to kill him right there. The old woman she came out and sailed in with me, and the two hired men ’Supported me on the flanks.” “And you jammed him to pieces, ot course ?” “That’s where the hull fun comes in,” answered the old man. “That ’ere fel ler squared oft', shed his coat, and he licked the hull four of us in loss’ll two minutes by a wig-wag clock !” “Did, eh ?” “You bet he did, and he drunk up a hull pan of milk and drove off whistling ’Yankee Doodle hum ’ When l got out ’o the catnip whar’ he piled me and saw one ’o the men with his nose mash ed flat, the ’tother with three teeth knock ed out, and the old woman jist crawling out from under the old bob-sled, 1 begun latfing and didn’t stop till midnight. 1 I !” lie slapped his leg and uttered a “haw ! haw! haw r !” which echoed clear to ( ’ana da, and in his contortions he broke the back off iiis chair. “But the joke was on you,” said the perplexed journalist. “Sartin—sartin, but am l such a dod rotted fool that I can’t la If at the way we four sailed in on him, calkerlating to mop him all over the barnyard, and lafV harder at the way we all started in on the Lord’s prayer afore he had fairly got the rust og his elbows! When 1 saw Hanner clawing up from among the bobs I !” And he went off into another fit and choked and gasped till he went down stairs with his collar hanging by a single button. A telegram fr6m Raleigh, X. C., Au gust 14th, says: “The Mormons and their apponents are having lively times in C lay and Cherokee counties. This sect has multiplied amazingly in those counties. A few days since the people of the county turned out en masse , and going to the Mormon settlements, gave them thirty days in which to leave North Carolina. If they did not leave, they were told that they would be made to. As soon as the party lett one of the Mor mon elders dispatched a courier with a letter to Gov. Jarvis, bitterly complain ing of this abridgment of their religious liberty, and requesting the governor to interfere in behalf of this people, espe cially the new converts. The governor has instructed the solicitor of the dis trict and sheriffs of the two counties to see that order is preserved. A big row is expected.” The fight against Conkling in New York has some elements of honest oppo sition to the senator and his machinery. In general the hospitality is inspired by the jealousy of cliques, which only seeks the opportunity Conkling has had. The masses opposed to Conkling are in gener al, it is true, actuated by proper senti ments; as to their leaders, it is very largely a fight as to who shall rule in Conkling's place. New York has had far more of personal politics, of factions led by prominent men, than any other old state in the Union, and the eon test is to a very large extent a war of fac tions, but it is also a war of ideas and a protest against the tyranny of Conkling and his machine and their meth ods of rule. ■ • The New York World claims that at the recent meeting of New York state democratic executive committee at Niag ara Falls, the friends of Mr. Tilden had a majority of three, and that the call for the convention, which is worded so as to he an endorsement of Gov. Robinson’s administration, is a decided triumph for that gentleman over Mr. John Kelly and his Tammany followers. On the other hand, the New York Express claims that the selection ot Syraeus instead of Sara toga as the place for holding the state convention was a defeat of the Tilden- Robinson wing, and predicts the nomina tion of Judge Sanford E. Church for the governorship by the coming democratic convention, which will be held on the 10th of September. The mosquito plague on the eastern shore of Maryland must be very bad. The superintendant and train hands of the railroad near Cambridge declare that the ntosquitors have been so thick as to obscure the light of the sun, and that, lighted lamps have been necessary at mid day in tlie stores and counting rooms. A newspaper correspondent writes: “Never in the history ot Tyaskin have the . mosquitoes been so thick as they have been during the past week. There is no rest night or day; our only remedy is smoke! smoke! And we have smoked so much that our old women and young women, too, look like dried beef on the hoof.” Some twenty-three miles distant from Knightstown, Ind., in a German settle ment, there is a beautiful young woman, about 21 years of age, daughter of Cas par Schmidt, who is, to all appearances, quite dead, having been in that state tor the past twelve months. She awakens regularly at ten o’clock every night, and remains awake about twenty minutes, when she relapses into somnolency. She eats very little. The physicians are puzzled. Imprisonment for eight days a little bo} nine years old because he “willfully damaged a tree growing in Battersea park, the property of her majesty’s board of works,” is the latest piece of judicial atrocity in London. The police justice who inflicted the sentence said that “the prisoner was old enough to do mischief, which must be stopped. He was a little fellow, but it was necessary to make an example of him.” A steel steamer is to be placed on the Hudson river. The weight of a steel boat is said to be considerably less than that of an ordinal*} wooden hull, and its capacity for fast travel is proportionately greater.