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THE FREE PRESS.
An Independent Democratic* Journal.
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Cartersville, Georgia, September 4,187 H.
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77/A’ CONVICT LEASE OF GEORGIA.
The investigation of the principal keep
er of the penitentiary lias brought the
subject of the convict lease very promi
nently before the people of the state. It
is safe to say that the general puplic
knows but little of this subject. It was
passed under Bullock’s administration,
and the lease, as sanctioned by Bullok’s
legislature, continued for years, ex
piring on the Ist of April 1879. It was
such a making business for the first les
sees that anew lease for twenty years
was authorized in the winter of 1879, to
take effect when the old lease expired,
unless the governor should have to pro
vide a place for some convicts whom the
original lessees refused to take. This
latter clause of our sentence contained
•;he milk of the cocanut.”
By some strange perversity or arrange
ment, the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad refused to take nine. Only nine
were rejected and rumor says these nine
slaves were only rjecteted to give a sanc
t.o,-n of law the the Governor’s intended
action. Nine poorwretches were
>.*nt hack to Atlanta, (nine and no
more) and therefore the twenty
year lease contractors entered upon their
rich possession. When the investigation
in Atlanta uncovers all mysteries to the
public, please let us hear something
about this refusal and the consequent ar
rangement, by which the three new com
panies begun to draw profits three years
before the allotted time for the expira
tion of the old lease.
The principal keeper, according to the
Alston report, had no means open to
him h}' which to prosecute the lessees for
the escapes, for each of which the state
required, as penalty, the sum of two hun
dred dollars. The principal keeper testi
fies before that committee that he could
get no testimony to convict these lessees.
There were ‘‘five hundred and twenty
three escaped convicts roaming at large”
last winter, and ‘‘not one dollar recover
ed to the state.” Yet we hear that the
lessees paid twelve dollars a head to the
principal keeper to move these convicts
from place to place, and he received
twelve dollars a head, or eight dollars a
head as a compromise, whether he moved
them or not. Truly this is an astonish
fshing age! The question that disturbs
most the public mind is whether the prin
cipal keeper served most faithfully the
state or the lessees. Multiply thirteen
hundred convicts by twelve and you be
gin “to see the cat in the meal tub!” In
a published interview with Capt. Nelms
in the Atlanta Constitution last winter he
-aid, “If 1 had fifty convicts on a farm
under this lease for twenty years I would
retire from public life and get rich. ” We
think twelve dollars a head in one year,
and his salary from the state added was
enough to satisfy a reasonable man.
(Capt. Lockett made 1,200 bales of cot
toon with one hundred convicts in one
year, and yet he could not afford a physi
cian or a chaplain.) Gov. Brown stated
to a Constitution reporter that he paid on
ly $3,000 for his thsee hundred convicts,
but his guards cost him SII,OOO. We
wonder if he included his twelve dollars
per capita which he paid to the principal
keeper to move them from one coal mine
into another, if they were only ten feet
a part! Is the principal keeeper the gov
ernor’s principal guard ?
But, why multiply words? It is all
bad, all wrong. Those helpless, innocent,
degraded children, born of condemned
mothers, chained to condemned fathers,
in wanton disregard of dececy, of com
mon humanity; the fearful death rate
growing out of inhuman treatment and
malarious locations; the fact that the
state treasurer, and his famous clerk are
also partners', the connection of a United
States senator with the terrible lease; the
death of poor Alston, with Its aC'c'uraulat
ed horrors, in the presence of the state
treasurer and the principal keeper, killed !
by a convict manager while two lessees
were hid in the dark room of the treasury*;
all, all together make up a chapter of
horrors that stupefies the honest citizen
of Georgia and appeals to the true heart
ed pat riot. The whole thing smacks of bar
barism and degradation.
We beg the legislature to clear up this
filthy stain on the fair tame of Georgia!
Vindicate the truth, and expose rotten
ness and corruption!
THE EUSIXESS OUTLOOK.
The signs of a general revival of busi
ness in this country are unmistakable.
There is every reason to believe that we
are entering opon a period of prosperity,
not the mere awakening consequent upon
the beginning of anew season, but a
permanent adjustment of affairs so long
unsettled by many inevitable causes
which are too well understood to need
explanation. We now have a sound cur
rency and plenty of it, which will, in
a short time, he in such general circu
lation that all will .feel that times are bet
ter.
Added to a properous year at home we
are about to reap a rich harvest from the
misfortunes of other nations.
In Germany, England, and some lesser
nations, used to misfortune, and even
in prosperous France, there has been
such wide spread failure ot crops that
they \x ill he compelled to buy very
largely the products of American soil and
industry. In England ttie honey crop is
even a failure because the bees had so lit
tle upon which to feed.
Says the old nursery rhyme :
“The King in the parlor counting out his money,
The Queen is in the kitchen eating bread and
honey.”
This money must he counted out to
l mde Sam, or the pleasing repast in the
kitchen will he cut short. Barge ship
ments of coin are now being made from
England, France and Germany to this
country.
We shall doubtless, during the fall and
white,r get more Than $200,000,000in hard
cash from abroad. During the first
half of 1879 there were 1969 less busi
ness failures in the United States than
during the same period of 1878, invol
ving $65,000,000 less money in disaster.
The things we have pointed out are
only a few of thousands, which tell of
better times coming. Commercial cen
ters are now literally crowded with buy
ers for the fall trade. From all parts
of the country come the novel soun
ding words, “Business is good !” And
now, not as a newspaper trick to catch
business, hut as a suggestion which we
think it would be fair to make, we say
to our readers and friends, advertise
your business and he ready for the open
ing trade. Do not be too slow in
this, and thus lose the cream of the har
vest which is certainly coming. The
Free Press will he glad to receive its
due share of advertising patronage.
Every man of extended business experi
ence knows that printer’s ink pays and
that there is nothing like being ready for
the tide.
Til E REN FRO E INTERVIEW.
According to the Constitution , the state
treasurer is perfectly blameless, the best
treasurer Georgia ever had. Mr. Ren
froe makes a statement in Sunday’s Con
stitution that we read carefully. The
treasurer admits he got over $5,000, be
cause the banks allowed his securities a
large'amount for the use of state funds
deposited in those hanks. The securities
gave the treasurer a third of the profits,
according to Mr. Renfroehimself. It was
such a small sum in his eyes, that he
kept no hook account of it. Such a trif
ling transaction as that was too insignifi
cant to be attended to. “He never made
a figure in connection with the matter.”
Well, it is queer how some people dif
| fer! If somebody will elect us tax col
lector in this county, and we are allowed
to deposit the county’s money in certain
banks, and our securities get the profits,
and then give us one-third, we think we
should “cut a figure,” if we did not have
time to make a figure. Just let the one
third he large onough and the sala
ry may go glimmering, for aught we care.
Where is that clause in the constitution
that confines state officers to their sala
ries? Who is the officer in the state to
enforce these provisions of the constitu
tion ?
GRA l> vs A DVAXCE SHEETS.
Henry Grady takes a periodical attack
of devotion to Colquitt and Gordon.
Semi-occasionally, or semi-annually, he
gets ofif some advance sheets that are so
extravagant that you can detect the fact
that he lias been freshly sugar-cured.
We have heard them on their military
exploits so often that we know them by
heart. For sake of variety and general
interest we hope lie will devote his facile
pen to the insurance company that they
led to glory after the war. Tell us some
thing about what they did “latelj\” He
may interlard the story with all the Sun
day school and grange meetings he can
recollect or manufacture. We hope he
will not now conclude to be “embarrassed
by facts.” There is nothing like imagi
nation to make a nice story.
When he wears out that subject he has
a wide field in the history of the present
state administration. Just give us a few
“salient” Colquitt points, in the light of
the present. Since the time he first
made obeisance to these tutelar divinities
lie had never such an opportvnity for his
peculiar style. Give the “lately” ad
vance sheets.
The death of Gen. John B. Hood and
his wife in New Orleens, within the past
few days, is a sad event. Although
they haev been married scarcely twelve
years they have left eleven helpless chil
dren as orphans, thrown out upon the
world without means. The southern
people ought to make them the wards of
the “Lost Cause” and take care of them
through the liberality of the true people
of the south.
The Rome Tribune is now published
daily. We wish it the greatest success.
Sawyer is a brave editor and a vigorous
writer.
ARKANSAS LETTER.
We take the liberty of publishing the
following private letter:
Osage Mills, Ark., Aug. 28, 1879.
To The Free Press:
Enclosed you will find SI.OO. Please
give ine credit for it on my subscription,
i am making arrangements to come hack
to that place, and will probably be back
there in time to pay the ballance as soon
as this expires. I can’t well do without
The Free Press. I look forward to its
coming with almost as much pleasure as
Ido a letter from home. It is full of
news to me. In fact, it is one of the
best papers in the state. It deserves a
good patronage, and I hope you will con
tinue to increase its circulation.
I am coming back there to make in} 7
home; not that I do not like the country
—tor it is a good average country. The
land in the valleys are good, the water
pure and plenty, and, above all, the
health of the country generally good, not
any more sickness than there is hack
there, except chills and fever and that
don’t hurt them like they do there. I
think that if the people would take care
of themselves, as they do there, the}
would not have them here. They chill
one day and the next day they are at
work or riding around exposing them
selves; the land here yield better than
the land there. The principal crop is 'to
bacco, which yield from S4O to $125 per
acre, as low as it is. Corn from 25 to 60
bushels per acre, although the crops have
been out short this season by the long
drouth, hut still it will make over a half
crop. Wheat was good although very
cheap, from 40 cents to 60 cents per bush
el. Everything is cheap here owing to
being so far from the railroad. It is 45
miles to the nearest point, but we have
daily mails, one from the north and one
from the soutlv. 1 get' my paper four
days after the date of it. Our state laws
, are very good, hut we need such men as
Dr. Felton, both as statesmen and citi
zens. But the country is improving very
i fast and if I was situated as I would like,
I would like to live here. 1 will close.
More Anon, J. W. Jackson.
TREASURER RENFROE’S STATENENT.
The Banks Paid]lnterest on the State De
posits, and the Treasurer and His Sure
ties Divided it Amongst Themselves.
[From the Constitution 31st.]
in response to some inquires directed to
him by a reporter of the Constitution
present, Mr. Renfro said he had no ob
jection to telling all he knew about the
present status of the treasury investiga
tion.
PREPARING THEIR REPORT.
“Have the committee concluded their
labors in your department?”
“I think they have. I understand
they have taken all the testimony they
desire, made all the examination of books,
vouchers, accounts, moneys and so fourth,
and are ready now to consider and make
up their report.”
“Have you any intimation of the tem
per of the committee after their examina
tion ?”
“I do not of course, know how the
committeemen feel, but lam led to be
lieve that they are satisfied with the order
and system with which the books and
transactions ot the treasury are conduc
ted. I know my hooks and accounts
are in perfect condition, and 1 believe
the committee are so satisfied. I wrote
to the committee when it was appointed
and proposed to aid it all in my power
and afford it every opportunity to the
fullest and most searching scrutiny into
my affairs.”
A MATTER OF INTEREST.
“You were before the committee your
self?”
“Yes, sir. I went before them a
couple of hours two seperate days and
was fully examined and testified to
everything sought for by the committee.”
“Colonel, it is stated loosely about the
chambers that you admitted receiving
some interest or reward for deposits of
the State funds in some of the banks.
How about that?
“As to that I will give you the exact
facts. When I had gone before the
committee and that point in my testi
mony had been reached where 1 saw the
committee desired to question me upon
the subject, I told them that I knew what
they wanted and to go right on and ask
any question they pleased. They did
so, and I answered fully, telling them
exactly what bad occurred.”
“Do you mind stating them to me in
substance ?”
“Not at all. Briefly, they are these:
When I was first appointed Treasurer,
under the law 1 had no difficulty in mak
ing my bond of $200,000, hut when I
was re-elected in 1877 anew law passed
you remember, which requires every se
curity upon the Treasury bond shall sig
nify therein for what amount he must
he worth over and above all exemp
tions, debts or other liabilities; and for
that amount a lien at once attaches in fa
vor of the State upon the property and
follows it until he is discharged. Under
these terms you may imagine the diffi
culty of getting up a $200,000 bond. The
securities upon my first bond showed
by the tax books to be worth over $400,-
000, measured by this test were only able
to sign for between SBO,OOO and $90,000
of the bond. I had to return to Atlan
ta and make up the balance among stran
gers. I finally succeeded in getting cer
tain gentlemen who are interested
in the banks here to sign ray bond. In
consideration of doing so they asked only
to designate certain hanks to receive de
posits of the States, money. So long as
tho banks were solvent chartered banks
of, the State, I had no objections. They
named several banks and I named oth
ers, and when I had so designated them
the governor entered an executive order ;
approving them. The money was de- ;
posited with these hanks.
A DIVISION BY THE BANKS.
After this and without the slightest
hint or suggestion from me my securi
ties came to me and said their banks pro
posed to allow them a certain percentage
upon the monthly balances of the State
as a bonus for their having, as my securi
ties, arranged to have the funds deposited
with them. They proposed to me to
divide with me, saying that my salary
was small and they were receiving profit
from being my securities they thought
I ought to get some of it. I said
to them that if the law did not forbid
my receiving it, I would take it and he
glad to get it! We examined the law
and found only that section of the code
which prohibts the treasurer from ma
king any contract or agreement with
any one for the use of the money of
the State. The advice of competent
lawyers was to the effect that the propo
sition made to me was not one forbidden
by law to be agreed to. and so 1 told
my securities. They said they would
give me one-third of what they re
ceived and did so, I presume.’
“How much have you gotten from that
source?”
“That is precisely what I was unable
to tell the committee, because I kept no
account 61 it and never made a figure in
connection with the matter. I just
took what was given me and asked no
questions. I said to the committee
that I did not think it would go beyond
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS,
but 1 have since learned that it was
probably-more than that. The hanks
are making up a calculation from their
liooks which will show possibly the ex
act amount.”
“That transaction, you think, was reg
ular and will be so treated?”
“I cannot say, of course, what view :
the committee will take of it, hut in my
own mind J am clear that I have not
violated any obligation in the matter; >
and 1 am fortified in that opinion by the j
views of some of the best lawyers in the
State. Without making any*point upon \
the fact that the money was received by J
me as ‘interest’ or in consequence of any
understanding whatever with the hanks
by me or by my consent to the use of the
State’s money.* I think the legislature
in Angier’s ease recognized the right of
the treasurer to receive such money for
himself. You see, here is a copy of
the resolution adopted in reference to
his case:
“Whereas, it has not been customary
to require the State treasurer to pay into
the treasury interest on deposits and State
funds.
“le it resolved, That the Treasurer of
the State shall not be held liable for any
such interest: and
“Be it further resolved, That suits now
pending against the present Treasurer,
involving such interests under the pro
visions of section 86, paragraph 8, of Ir
win’s Revised Code, he discontinued,
and that the Attorney-General is here
by instructed to dismiss all suits.”
“I was a member ot the General-
Assembly when that resolution passed,
and know that that body held that view
of law. I brought these resolutions to
the attention of the committee, but I
cannot say what view they will take of
them.”
THOSE SO-CALLED SUDDEN RICHES.
“I am told that you explained to the
committee and absurdity of the charge
that you had grown rich in this office
j did you?
“1 did this* I told the committee that
while I dislike to open up my private af
fairs to public scrutiny, yet in view of all
the rumors afloat I deemed it my duty
to tell them liow much property I had
aedhow and where I got it. I did this
beginning just after the war, and coming
j down to the present time. I think l
! satisfied them that T am worth hut little
! more now than when I came iiere and
that what I have lias been honestly earn
ed.
“All these lies aoout ray getting rich
| in office are fully recognized now, I
} think, by every member of the commit
j tee.”
Colonel Renfro detailed the facts to
I the reporter, but they are not material
to this article.
In conversation several members of the
committee have corroborated Colonel
Renfroe’s statements. As far as we
can learn there is no suggestion made
looking to the impeachment of the
Treasurer. On the contrary the com
mittee is divided in this way : A part
favor his full exoneration from all sus
picion and blame for transaction, while
another part favor leaving to the house
the questionwhet her he ought to retain
or pay to the JStale the money received
by him in consideration of the state de
posits being made as above stated ?
It is probable that there will be two re
ports, a majority and a minority report,
one of which will submit the question
and the other vindicate the light of
the Treasurer. The committee will
( doubtless report the coming week.
It will he an exceeding relief to the
people of the State to know that the af
fairs in the treasury all are correct, and
that their money is all safe and sound.
This will go far to quiet the apprehen
sions which were rife and after the inves
tigations were started and based upon
the wildest rumors that fertile and sensa
tional brains could concoct.
GEORGIA FAIRS.
Atlanta Constitution.
Below Will he found the time and place
of holding the Secretary’s address of the
different Fair Associations in Georgia:
Talbot County Fair, Talbotton.
Western Georgia Fair Association La-
Grange, October 14th to 17th —T. H.
Whitaker, Secretary.
North Georgia Fair Association, At
lanta October 20th to 25th—B. W. Wrenn,
Secretary.
Americas Fair Association, Americas,
October 21st to 24th—J. W. Wheatley,
Secretary.
The State Fair, Macon, October 27th
to November Ist—Malcolm Johnson,
Secretary.
South Georgia Fair, Thomasville,
October 28th to November 2d —S. G.
McLendon, Secretary.
Southwest Georgia Fair, Albany, No
vember 4th to 7th —T. M. Carter, Secre
tary.
Monroe County Fair, Forsyth—.ll.
FI. Cabiyjess, Secretary.
Until within a few years the old eom
i mon law rule prevailed in North Caro
lina by which robbery of orchards or
■ the theft of growing crops was not lar-
J ceny, hut merely trespass, and as such,
not an indictable offense. The planter
might catch the freedman clandestinely
picking cotton from his fields, but the
j law gave no redress for the grievance, as
I his only recourse was in a civil suit for
! damages, which could result at best mere
ly in an idle and. empty judgment, the
costs falling on the prosecutor. The
absurd operation of the rule was striking
ly shown in a case where an old wo
man was indicted for stealing three
| roasting ears from a corn field. If she
had deliberately plucked them from the
stalks she would have gone clear; hut
she alleged that she went into the field,
as a matter of kindness to the owner, to
drive out some swine that had broken
in, and that while there she picked up
from the ground some ears w hich the
hogs had knocked off. By this sever
ance the ears of corn lost their “savor of
the reality” and became personalty, and
were subject tojjlarceny. She was ac
cordingly found guilty and sent to the
county jail for six months. That was
tw o months for each ear of corn.
>
The Massachusetts liquor law is very j
evidently not enforced as it should he.
The sexton of a church at Jamaica Plains
bought me some wine for communion
purposes, as the law very properly per
mitted him to do; but at the same
time he bought some whisky for him- *
self, which the law intended to prevent '
his doing. As might have been ex
pected in the case of a sexton so lost to j
lose all sense of decency as to buy whisky j
for his own use, he mixed them demi
johns up,” as “Little Buttercup” did
the “babies.” His carelessness was
discovered when one of the lady com- j
rnunioants was nearly choked with j
the strong beverage. The brethren j
either didn’t notice the difference or
were too much discret to say anything
about it.
The Legislature has not yet begun to
investigate Governor Colquitt on the
charge of being the Defoor murder.—
LaGrange Reporter.
No. But they have investigated and
“exonerated” him on anothing charge
that nobody preferred against him any
more than they did the Defoor murder,
and nobody believed any more than they
would have believed the murder charge if
preferred.— Atlanta Dispatch.
DOWN IN DIXIE.
Baltimore lias a voting population of
71,501.
Lampsas Springs, in Texas, has 3,000
visitors.
Cottoh is going into Se+tna freely and
the dull season is passing a\vaj\
Wine made from Florida oranges three
tears ago is said to taste like sherry.
The colton crop this year, will be large
enough to give every man a shirt.
Xueces county, Texas, pastures nearly
700,000 sheep.
The Alabama river is at a fair boasting
stage for the season of the year.
There lias not been a lire, or an alarm
in Charleston since the 21st of June.
The tallest man in Xortli Carolina is
William Ingram, of Asheboro. lie
measures 6 feet 8 inches.
Gold in paying quantities lias been
found on Little mountain, in South Caro
lina, and the fever is running high.
A fellow can hardly ride ten miles in
any direction in Mississippi without
I stumbling over a camp-meeting.
I An Indiana widow living near Dension,
| in the nation has had her shoes made
of tiie tanned hide of her dear departed.
The Louisiana state convention to nomi
nate a state ticket which will he held in
Xew Orleans October 20th.
In Memphis watermelon juice has
come into favor with the physicians who
have to treat yellow fever patients when
| suppression of urine occurs.
An Arkansas negro who was hanged
asked his audience t.i try to meet him
I in heaven, although he was quite doubt
ful of getting there.
In one township in Wake county, Xortli
I Carolina, are over ten men, all over
! eighty-five years of age, who each
day do good farm work and are healthy
I and hearty.
Wade Hampton (the younger) and his
bride are staying at the" White Sulphur
Springs, Va., and are described as the
handsomest young pair who have been
there this summer.
The committee that was entrusted
with the election of a professor of mathe
matics for Xewherry college, South
Carolina, have selected Mr. G. G. Sale,
of Georgia and a graduate of the univer
sity of Athens.
The beautiful little city of St. Mary’s,
on the Georgia coast, lias made a prac
tical offer to immigrants. To any per
son who will clear, inclose and plant in
sweet orange or pecan trees, or both,
forty feet, and at their option, other
fruit trees between them and erect a
frame building, will receive a tree sim
ple title to the lot so improved, and
shall he entitled to the full use of the
other half of said lot, free of charge, for
the period of ten years. When the
fact is taken into consideration that the
climate and soil of St. Mary’s offer the
greatest inducement to truck gardeners
and fruit growers of any point on the
Atlantic coast, it will be seen that there
is something substantial in this offer.
A Book of Humor. —A quaint cireu
ias from “Old Si” informs us of his in
tention “to-publisli a book,” in which
his philosophic and comical sketches
that have been appeal ing in the Atlanta
Constitution for several years past, will
be printed. The hook will he a hand
some volume of over two hundred
pages, on line paper, bound in cloth,
and finely illustrated by the best negro
character in the country. It will be
a very readable book, and one that will
always excite good humor and a pleasant
train of thought. It will be sold only
by subscription, at $1 per copy, postage
included. Orders may be addressed to
Sam W. Small, “Old Si,” care of
Constitution.
In a very “bilious” article against Mr.
Goldsmith, the New Orleans Picayune
concludes: “How about the new consti
tution of Georgia, ot which so many
praises are heard? General Toombs
ought to have caused to be added to that
excellent instrument a thief-trap attach
ment.” He thought he had. Bit
who ever heard a law made by a lawyer
that some other lawyer could not evade
ornulify? That’s what constitutes, in
a minor degree, the glory of the profes
sion. If the law were simple and effec
tive, attorneys would he among the
poorest of mankind. As it is we do not
blame them.— Augusta Chronicle.
Two interesting specimens of the
ourang-outang have been placed in the
Jardind’ Acelimatation, Paris, the older
one having been captured with other’s
at Borneo, after a desperate chase, in the
course ot which eight natives lost their
lives. The animals fell into an ele
phant trap, thirty feet deep, and were
gradually reduced by hunger toll state of
weakness, when they were garroted and
shut up in a cage. The largest one
measures about live feet, and is said to
he the largest ever brought to Europe.
Blaine tohl a Herald correspondent,
who wanted his opinion of the probable
| effect of Grant’s decline upon the Presi
: dential canvass, that he really was so
j busy with the Maine canvass that he had
not time of talking of the subject.
Blaine was telling the truth. He did
not want to tell the reporter that he
thought it sent Blaine stock up to par,
but he was strictly accurate in his state
ment. His hands are entirely full of
Maine this canvass.
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Griffin, September 2.—“ Cut to the
hollow,” said the doctor, “and the chan
ces are against him.” Bill Bethune and
Mid Graddy had a difficulty here this
afternoon, in which the latter seriously
cut the former, inflicting a frightful gash
diagonally across the left breast, exten
ding from immediately under the shoul
der to the nipple. Bethune’s ribs
were visible, and the sight was ghastly.
>
New Orleans, September 2.— Genetal
Hood left absolutely nothing. The benev
olent association, the army of north
ern Virginia, and other parties here
are at work preparing to raise a fund for
the support of the children. With his
dying breath he bequeathed his chil
dren to the soldiers of the south.
The body of the late Wild William of
Deadwood —familiarly known in his life- j
time as “Wild Bill”—was exhumed for |
the purpose of removal to anew eerne
tary when it was found perfectly petri
fied. His friends are now canvassing
the project of erecting the petrifaction
as a momument over what will infelcit
ously be called his “last resting place.”
The increase of postal revenue in the
United States has been truly remarkable.
In 1860 the revenue was $9,218,061, and
in 1878 it has reached the total of $29,-
277,619. But the expenses of the ser
vice through the amount of the deficit
in 1878 was nearly the same as in 1878.
Among the bequests of Dr. Adiel Sher
wood are $260 to the Georgia. Baptist
Sunday school board and some books
relating to Georgia and to]Mereer univer
sity. To Mercer he also leaves a partial
interest in lands in Tennessee and Miss
issippi.
Fashion at the watering-places is press
ing lightly upon the poorer of her vota
ries. A letter from Saratoga says that
several ladies there appeared at the hotels j
in unbleached muslin dresses, costing !
six cents per yard.
In pursuance of Secretary Thompson’s I
efforts to build up a race of American i
seamen, a grand review of practice ships j
will be held at Hampton Hoads early in j
October, when the boys now receiving j
a nautical education will gain a lesson
in fleet drill.
In S. S. Jtiekley’s bank at Columbus,
0., on Tuesday, a man engaged that at
tention of the proprietor on pretense of
a negotiation, when a a “pal” climbed
in the rear window and got away with
$5,000 in currency and $15,000 in regis
tered bonds.
Nihilism is taking a firm hold upon the
Russian peasants. The respect which
this class of Russians has n t ys ha 1 for
the Czar amounted abac to \eiteration
and their adoption of the and of
Nihilism has a very threaluitig aspect.
Germany has abandoned the attempt to
retire silver, and is paying out the thaler
pieces. The effort to introduce the sin
gle standard is suspended with from
$450,000,000 to $180,000,000 of the silver
which the government set out to retire
still in cultivation.
The Boston Globe thinks young men
will marry more when young ladies
dress less extravagantly. Doubt
less it is the woman they want, not
clothes they can’t use.
Europe will have to pay $600,000,000
this year to foreign countries for its food
supply. At least half of this will come
to the United States, now truly the
granary of the world.
The National Cotton Exchange looked
i over the subject of cotton worms, and
j is of the opinion that this little insect has
| damaged the south since the war to the
j tune of $200,000,000.
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A London paper says that Strakoscli
is talking of a season of cheap opera at
Drury Lane.
The Madison (La.) Journal nominates
| Sam Bard’s widow for St;ite Librarian.
| NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Isartow County Sheriff’s Sales.
¥ ; ILL BE SOLD before the o >urt house <toor in
CartersviHe, Georgia, on tie first Tuesday in
| October next, 1879. between the legal sale
| hours the following described propert \ to-wit:
| Parts of lots of land Nos. 83 and 99, bounded
! by lands known as the Widow Russell’s place,
| and lands of Western Hardy, W. A. (Jhunn, A.
W. Brown and John Farrias, situated, lying and
being in the sth district and 3rd section of origi
nally Cherokee, now Bartow county, containing
in all one hundred and fifty-five acres more or
less. Levied on and will be sold as the property
of E. T. Payne, to satisfy one Bartow superior
court li, fa. iu favor ol' Edward Payne vs. Wm,
11. Stiles, principal, and E.T. Payne, Jr., securi
ty on appeal bond. Property pointed out by
plaintiffs attorneys. Tenant ‘in possession no
tified. $3.50.
Also, at the same time and place, lot of land
No. 002, and the south half of 551, 552, 553, so as
to run with the line between Wade H. Bailey
and J. W. Ilanie, located in the 17th district and
3rd section Bartow county, containing one hun
dred acres more or less. Levied on and will be
sold as the property of Wade 11. Bailey to satisfy
a superior court li.'fa. fouuded on an attachment
in favor of G. M. Isbell vs. Wade 11. Bailey.
Also at the same time and place, 35 acres of
land more or less, lying anil being in the south
west corner of lot of land No. 110 in the 6tli dis
trict and 3rd section of Bartow county. Levied
on and will be'sold as the property of John R.
Tuck under and by virtue of a li. fa. issued from
Justice Court 930tfi district G. M. iu favor of Ba
ker & Hall vs. said John R. Tuck. Levy made
and returned to me by Wm. Shuler, L. G. $2.5t
Also at the same time and place, lots of land
Nos. 803,
727, 807, 934, 933, 802, 932, 1007, 940, 935. 942, in till
21st district and 2nd section, and lots Nos. 899,902.
970, 903, 1199, 898, and 1185 iu the 4tli district and
3rd section and twenty acres ofl|and more or leas,
number not known, being the place where the
Empire Mills are located and including said
mills, all in Bartow county. Levied on and will
be sold as the property of H. B. McConneil to
satisfy a Bartow county superior court rt. fa. in
favor'of J. R. Parrott vs. H. B. McConnell.
Levy made by James Kennedy, sheriff. $3.25
Also at the same time and place, the west hal
of a certain hotel in the town of Kingston in said.
county, known as the Couch House, that part be
ing the part built by the plaintiff- m the li. fa.
named below. Levied on and will be sold as the
property of and "belonging to the estate of Thom
as it. Louche, late of said county, deceased, by
virtue of and lo satisfy a Bartow superior eour:
mortgage fi. fa. in favor of Z. W. Jackson & Cos.
vs. A. P. Wofford, administrator of the estate o
said Thomas It. Louche. Property in pusst s-ion
of Mrs. M. E. liaiuey and pointed out by mort
gage li. fa. $3.25
Also at the same time an 1 place, one lot, sit
uated in the city of CartersviHe,on Gilmer street,
bounded on the north by the Miller Collin’s lot
south by Mrs. Parrott’s lot, east by Gilmer street,
west by Jas. D. Wiikerson’s lot. Levied on am;
will be sold as the property of Jas. 1). Wiikerson
to satisfy a Justice Court li. fa. iu favor of SanPl
Clayton and Jas. I). Wilkersou. Property in
possession of said J. D. Wilkersou and pointed
out by him. Levy made and returned to me by
a constable. $2.75
Also at the same time and place, one house and
lot in the city of Cartersville. Said lot contain
ing one acre more or less and bounded as follows:
on the south by property of Silas Stephens, east
by property formerly owned by W. B. Bishop,
north by property of F. M. Johnson aud west by
Gilmer street. Levied on will be sold as the
property of Thos. H. Baker to satisfy one state
and county tax fi. fa. issued by J. F. Sproull, tax
collector for 1878, iu favor of the state of Georgia
and Bartow county vs. i'hos. H. Baker. Prop
erty pointed out by said Baker. $3.00
Also at the same time and place, two acres of
land in the 6th district and 3rd section of Bartow
county, being parts of certain lots of land num
bers not known, on which C. W. Whitworth now
resides anil on which there is a good dwelling
house and all necessary outbuildings. Levied
on and will be sold as the property of C. W.
Whitworth to satisfy one Bartow superior court
fi. fa. in favor of Z. T. Terrell vs. J. H. Denman
and C. W. Whitworth, principals and 11. C. &
J. E. Roberts, indorsers. Property pointed out
by 11. C. Roberts, indorser. Property in posses
sion of C. W. Whitworth. * $3.25
J AMES KENNEDY, Sheriff.
A. M. FRANKLIN, Deputy Sheriff.
Legislative Notice.
'VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
JA undersigned will apply to the General As
sembly of the state of Goorgia, now in session,
for the passage of an act entitled as follows:
“An aot to authorize the Board of County
Commissioners of Bartow county to issue bond's
to raise money to build a court house,”
John 11. Wikle. W. 1. Bonham,
I. O. McDaniel. Jf„ J. M. Veach,
Jno. W. Keever, T. C. Moore,
J. P. Hawks, J. It. Brandon,
W. F. Corbin, A. C. Trimble,
Jas. W. Lewis, C. N. Mayson,
W. T. Gordon,
This 2nd September, 1879.
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE
I WILL BE AT THE FOLLOWING NAMED
places, on the days stated, for the purpose of
collecting the State and County Taxes of Bartow
county for the year 1879:
Cassville, October 6, IS and 31.
Kingston, October 7, 20, and November 3.
Euharlee, October 8,21, and November 4.
Allatoona, October, 9, 22, and November 5.
October 10, 24 November 7, 14, 21, j
Stamp Creek, October 13, 23, November 6.
Wolf Pen, October 14, 27, November 10.
Pine Log, October 15, 28, November 11.
Sixth District, October 16, 29, November 12.
Adairsville, October 17, 30, November 13.
Stilesboro, November 17.
Taylorsville, November 18.
Li iron’s Chapel, November 19.
Hall’s Mills, November 20.
The state tax is 35 cents per SIOO, and the coun
ty tax 26% per SIOO. My instructions are imper
ative to make my settlements at the time re
quired by law, and 1 earnestly request the tax
payers to make their arrangements to meet the
tax and save the unpleasant duty and costs of
collecting by execution. W. W. RICH, i
seot4 Tax Collector of Bartow County.
Administrator’s Sale.
BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER FROM THE
Court of Ordinary of Bartow county, will
be sold before the court house door in Carters
ville, said county, on the first Tuesdat in Octo
ber, 1879, between the legal sale hours, the fol
lowiug property, to-wit: The tract of land
whereon James H. Burch, deceased, resided u,
the time of his death, containing 343 acres more
or less, and composed of parts of the followin'-
lots of land, viz: 150% acres of lot No. 20 in tilt
16th district and 31x1 section, said county (one
half acre of this lot reserved as a burying
grouud), 142 acres of the north part of lot No. 21,
and 51acres of the south part of lot No. 11, both
in the 16th district and 3rd section of said coun
ty, 200 acres of the tract cleared and in line state
of cultivation, the balance well timbered, good
dwelling and out house;; nev-r failing s rnr ol
water, within two miles of the town of Adnirs
ville, and lying immediately, on the Weste.n &
Atlantic Railroad,
Also, one vacant lot in the town of Adairsville.
containing about one-fourth of an acre, adjoin
ing the lots of George Reid and G. C. Ghol’ston.
sold as the property of James H. Burch, de
ceased, for the purpose of paying debts of de
ceased. and for distribution. Terms of sale, one
half ca h, the balance on a credit of twelve
months’note; bond for title given. This Herd
2nd, 1879. JAMES M. TEACH,
Administrator James H. Burch, deceased,
sept4-td,
-NT PI XV
BAR and BILLIARD ,SALO<>v
At St. JAMES HOTEL
Having just opened a first r.
. liar and Billiard Saloon in St. j.
tel, I respectfully solicit the patronage < .
izens of cartersville and vicinity, a£m- .
that they will receive proper ktffmffu ",
hand. 1 keep on hand tne finest of ‘ u ,l| >
LIQUORS A.ISTTJ AV1.47 , ;s
Which will be manipulated into the 1
ionable drinks. la *h-
Ice-cold BEER always on tap.
Respectfully, j. yj , i(
.
Cartersville, Ga., 23th, 181 1. " ''*'*•
City Tax No tippy
I WILL BE AT THE COUNCIL Oil s
JL every day except Saturdavs and ’ l ’
Horn Monday, Bth 1:1st. till Nov. Ist f 0; -, ' 1
pose of collecting city tax. All parti, . ?'!"! '
lifted to oorae forward and payasthepo
be cioseti Ist day of November. " Ml
JNO. A. GLADD v
sept4-til novl Pity Tax Collect,),.
“ TUB NEW DEHART jjTT,
A T A RECENT MEETING OF I'M r;n
CATION AL Board of this count , dn *
towing series'of school books were a'‘out
McGuifie’s Readers, Sanford’s Aritlunuh -i
vey’s spellers and Grammars, Ind Eclectic r
1 rapines. These books will all be furnish, .1
1 lately reduced rates.
Any book not in this list will be furnished
the publishers lowest prices. A large lot .If m
kinds of school material at the low, t re '
No extra charge for ordering anythin"- '
stock. 11. M. MOUXTC ASTI L ,v < ,\ hi
STOVES Ad TINWARE;
JOHN ANDERSON,
(Opposite Curry’s Drug Store.
Has in store and for s\u
large lot of Tinware, Stoves and 1 u h c ,, '
Also, the celebrated Fly Fans, Tubs anil ic '
ets which he will sell iu exchange for 1; ,
Beeswax, Feathers, Butter, Eggs and t hicken
He sells goods cheaper than ever. junelh
The Cartersville High School
! TT7TLL BE OPEN FOR THE ADMLsiov
W of pupils N
MONDAY, 1 ITH OF AUGUST, 1879.
and continue four months, tuition parable
monthly. Patrons are earnestly desired to send
their children at the beginning of the term
Rates of tuition are from $2 to $4 per month, ad
cording to grade. Patrons will receive the bene
fit of the public fund. R. JOHNSTON, lTin
THE CARTERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
npilE FOLLOWING ARE THE TEXT BOOKS
I used ill the Cartersville High School:
McGuffey’s Readers, Harvey’s Grammars atnl
Spellers, Eclictic Series of ‘ Geographies and
Copy Books, Sanford’s Arithmetics and Algebra.
Chauvenet’s Geometry, Cutter’s Analytic Anat
omy; Physiology and Hygiene, Worcester’s Dic
tionaries. It. JOHNSTON, Prin.
COTTON CIN REPAIRING.
4 LL WHO HAVE COTTON GINS OR OTH
dI er machinery to repair oau call on the un
dersigned, who is fully prepared to do such work
He also does repairing on guns, locks, umbrella-1
and nearly anything that you may desire to have
mended, and works on all kinds of metals. \
large lot of keys of all kinds on hand and for
sale cheap. Shop on West Main street.
jly2s-tf JNO F. HARWELL.
TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
The best brands of Smoking and Chewing To
bocco and Cigars; also Pipes and snuff at the
bookstore of H. M. M<)UNT(JASTLE A CO.
THE NATIONAL HOTEL,
The only first-blass hotel iu
DALTON, GEORGIA.
Rates per day : : : : : :$2 00
Rates per week : : : : : : 800
Rates per month : : : : : 25 Oft
Large Sample Rooms for Commercial Travel
ers. Postottiee in the building.
jati9 J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor.
Kind Notice.
17*0 R the present our Books and Notes are with
_ J. J. Howard & Sou, and we woe id he great
ly obliged for payment of all aniouu: s due in.
We do not propose to sue any one, out call ami
pay. Augli-lm. J. A. ERWIN SON.
U. O. ROBERTSON, 31, D ,
Hygienic PSiysician and Electro-
Therapeutist,
Begs leave to announce to the
citizens of Bartow, Gordon, CobO, i herokee,
aud other counties of North Georgia, that for the
sake of rendering his mode of treatment more
universal and available, and the Health Institute
equally easy of access to patients iu all partsof
the state, has removed from Rowland Springs to
Atlanta where he has permanently-established a
Health Institute.
The .Atlanta Health. Institute
is the only institute south superintended by reg
ularly qualified Hygienic Phyeicians, ami the
only place where all kinds of curable diseases
are scientifically treated without a particle of
medical drug in any form, and with succi ss un
pttralelled by any other known process of treat
ing diseases.
'Parties who are, because of continue 1 do ing
and drugging, considered incurable, are re
spectfully requested to visitor correspond with
us. Thousands of chronic invalids, alter having
patiently tried the “deadly virtues of the (drng
ophatie) healing art” and with no other change
than that of growing continually worst and
worse, have under the Hygienic system of medi
cation, been speedily and perinancdtiv restored
to health.
For particulars, call at ATLANTA HEALTH
INSTITUTE, No. 178 W. Peters street, or address
DR. U. O. ROBERTSON,
feb2o Atlanta, Ga.
TH K MADISONIAN,
A LIVE WEEKLY PAPER, PUBLISHED
1 at Madison, Ga., and edited by Dr. .J. t. r.
Blackburn, being the only paper*published in
and the official organ of Morgan county; is one
one of the best advertising mediums in middle;
Georgia. For terms, address
B. M. BLACKBURN, Publisher,
Madison, Ga.
FARMING LAIN ITS
—AND —
City and Village Property
—FOB 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 nave for
sale fifteen farms, most of them near the railroad
depot, and convenient to post-oflices, churches
ana schools. These lands produce cotton, all the
grains and grasses, and water and timber good
and abundant. This village is fifty-three miles
north of Atlanta, Ga., and eigtv miles south of
Chattanooga, Tenu. Address
WM. T. WOFFORD,
Attorney at Law and Dealer in Real Estate,
Cass Station, Georgia.
Fashionable Barber Shop.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
Upstairs, Over New York Store, Bank 81-oek,
By JOKN~TAYLOR.
HAS BEEN IN THE BUSINESS 35 YEARS,
and is one of the most accomplished bar
bers in the South. His shop is well and comfort
' ably furnished. He is the only barber in the
State who uses I’halon’s Celebrated Chemical
Hair Invigoratorf to prevent baldness and dis
eases of the scalp. All who have tried it know
it to he a specific.
He also uses the celebrated Russian Couissan
Shaving Soap, which is known to lie the best soap
m the world. It has the invaluable property of
preventing pimples and all cutaneous eruptions.
.To those who shave twice a week, he will fur
nim! a l ,r *'’ate 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. and satisfaction guarantee and.
inly 16 JOIIN TA YL<)ll. i'roprictor.
J. C. & S. F. MILA-V,
-
Commission Merchants,
COTTON BUYERS,
Dealers in. Standard Guanos,
AGENTS FOR
Metropolitan Works, Richmond, Va.
CAN FURNISH ANY KIND OF AN EN
giue from four-horse power to one hundred
and fifty.
SAW AND GRIST MILLS, THRESHERS,
And in fact anv kind of machinery.
Please see us before purchasing. Ottioc
at T. A. Foote’s store, West Main street. Car
tersville, Ga. fel)2<
ST. JAMES HOTEL,
(Cartersville, Georgia.)
npilE UNDERSIGNED HAS RECENTLY
! L takeu charge of this elegant new hotel, t*
j has been newly furnished and shall be first-class
j in all respects.
SAMFLE ROOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS-
Favorable terms to traveling theatrical com
panies. [jaul6] L. C. HOSS, l’ropjewr.