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THE FREE PRESS. Ah Independent Democratic Journal. C. ii. r. WILLINGHAM, Ki'ttob. The Free I’ress is an Independent Democrat ic Journal, opposed to all Kings, Cliques and Combinations, of whatever sort, organizcdto de feat the w ill of the people in all public matters or interests in whatever shape presented. ( nrtersville, Oeorsln, October 23, 187 ft. THE OUTLOOK FOR 1880. • The so-called leaders of the national democracy are bad managers. They have blundered ever since the war. They have conceded every vital princi ple involved in the perpetuation of pub lic liberty as formerly claimed by the party. To-day there is little difference between the national democracy and na tional republicanism as set forth in their national platforms; we mean the princi ples upon which all federal contests have been made. The party wa* stultified when democrats were forced to vote for Greeley, in 1872, under the whip and spur of “organized” democracy as controlled by those leaders. The St. Louis platform was no better as far as principle was involved. We are glad that we have never endorsed either of the two last platforms of the national democracy. In both instances they lied to the true democracy of the country, and whipped them into submission to the mandates of so-called leaders who had no higher principle involved than that of political supremacy. What is political supremacy worth if it is not for the benefit of the toiling people who give wealth to all countries? The national democracy, as we term it more to express in a short way the de mocracy of the country, we fear, is to be deceived again. A tremendous effort is being made to give Tilden another boom for 1880. Certain political elements are working for it. liow many bar’ls of money are involved in it we cannot say. Tilden pretends to be reticent; but Tilden has his clacquers at work upon the boom for himself. Tilden can never get an other grip upon the masses of the de mocracy, though the tricky politicians may fix him up for the nomination next year. If Tilden is nominated, it will be like throwing a wet blanket over the embers of democratic fervor. A de feated man by his own want of courage at the end of the last presidential race, popular confidence is lost in him. A selfish money lord and an aristocratic bondholder, as well as a hard money man, who cares nothing for the masses, he is not the man to raise enthusiasm among the democratic masses, who are the soft money men of the country. With alibis “bar’ls of money,” with all his administrative powers in the handling of his “bar’ls of money,” he has lost hold upon the American democracy, and the political tricksters may secure his nomi nation but not his election. Gen. Hancock is the man for 1880, either against Grant or John sherman. Of course, tins is our personal opinion, and ous opinion is as much entitled to consideration as any other American citizen. Hancock was not only a great and faithful general on the federal side in the war between the state, but he has shown himself to be no less a friend of civil government since the war. When he commanded in the department of Louis iana during reconstruction, Hancock was equal to a proper appreciation of the supremacy of civil over military govern ment. That was sufficient to embalm his name in the heart of every true American citizen. He bore the crest of a gallant soldier in war and carried in his hand the olive branch of peace when the war had ended. He flaunted no “bloody shirt.” He was a man of peace when peace was declared. He was for civil government when there was no longer any necessity for the methods of war. In war he was a soldier, and a gallant one. In peace he has proven himself the standard-bearer in the cause of civil government. As he was a true soldier for the government he loved, so would lie be a true administrator of tlie aflairs of the presidency for the whole country and the people thereof. With Tilden as the nominee of the democracy for the presidency, the fight would be merely mechanical. It would be. the work of the machinery of party dictation. It would be a fight under democratic coloring without the spirit of democratic principle, without democratic confidence and without the least hope of success. With Hancock as our standard bearer, we should have the spirit of the gallant and noble soldier to enthuse our ranks and the faithful civilian to give confidence of victory. Tilden’s cold, calculating spirit would inspire no confi dence; hut the halo of Hancock’s re nown as a soldier and citizen would at tract all true democrats and good citizens to his standard. Tilden’s “bar’ls of money” has been “weighed in the bal ance and found wanting.” Hancock’s warm patriotism in both war and peace will arouse the American democracy as it has not been aroused since the war. Then, we say to the people, that is as many of them as may read The Free Press, let the masses speak out on the presidential question. We have been too long controlled by New York and her arrogant politicians. The democia ey can elect a president without a Yew York candidate if the right kind of a nomination is made upon the right kind of a platform. The light man is a true democrat and the right kind of platform must be thoroughly democratic. A member of the legislature remarked to us last Sunday was a week ago, that, as soon as the legislature adjourned, the Atlanta Constitution would begin to make war upon that body in regard to the trial of Renfroe. While it may he said the Constitution is not exactly mak ing war upon the legislature it is making a strong effort to make its readers believe that its editors and the “immortal seven een” had more judgement in the matter than twenty-seven senators, one hun dred and seventy-five representatives and a large majority of the people of Georgia. Our confrere has an abundance of cheek. TREASURER REN FRO £'B VICTOR! . Comment on the Renfroe impeach ment continues to lie indulged in. Much of it is bitter. There are but few bold enough to defend the justice of the re sult of that trial. Indeed, there is deep indignation felt and manifested by a large majority in regard to it; and some are so outraged at it when viewed in connec tion with the Goldsmitth trial that thej do not hesitate to charge corruption. About the truth of such charge we know nothing, and would not make it. VVe only repeat the sentiment of the people as we hear it expressed. We would do no man injustice, and, therefore, we can only say now that the result of the trial was most inexplicable to our mind when we remember that Goldsmith was con victed upon charges no graver than those preferred against Renfroe. In fact, the people do not and cannot understand the culmination of the two cases of impeach ment so similar in character. It is a puz zle to them they cannot solve. It is a riddle in jurisprudence without prece dence in the annals of court trials, so much so that it amounts to a mystery that has not yet been tathomed. The “immortal seventeen,” who de feated the conviction of Renfroe, may prove to be right in the end; that is to say, they may yet convince popular sen timent that they acted right. If they were right in that and the conviction of Goldsmith, they have performed a heroic duty the people are not yet prepared to understand and appreciate. It may be that the “immortal seventeen” have giv en themselves up to political martyrdom, but none see it but themselves. They know that Renfroe did confess to the charges prefeired against him. They know that he proposed to make restitu tion of the money illegally received by him as interest upon the public funds and resign if the house would not prefer ar ticles of impeachment, but the house would not condone the crime its mem bers believed to have been committed by the treasurer. In the end, it appears there were only seventeen members of the senate, out of forty-two who voted, that entertained the opinion that Renfroe was innocent. And when the resolutions came up in the house requiring the governor to issue fi.fas. against Renfroe for the money il legally taken, the vote was almost unan imous; and when the resolutions went to the senate most of the “immortal sev enteen” w ere w illing for the../?, fas. to issue, but failed to vote for them as a w hole under the pretext that said reso lutions reflected upon the integrity of the “immortal seventeen” for defeating Ren froe’s conviction. The resolutions did, however pass the senate with an addi tional one as a sort of salve for the “im mortal seventeen,” and the house con curred in the amendment and Renfroe stands to-day guilty of the charges pre ferred against him by the house. Moral ly, Renfroe is no better off in public es timation than if the “immortal seven teen” had not defeated his conviction. The only difference is that he retains his office anU tjuoli i>erqnisitif*s n<a Tip mny bo able to make in collusion with his sure ties. The governor may be able to col lect the fi. fas., but the governor nor the public are obliged to know anything about future interest on the public funds. Under all the circumstances, Renfroe’ was a victory that will eventually turn to 5 ashes upon his lips. The action of the “immortal seventeen” does not convince the people of his innocence. His own confession of guilt will stick to him like a leach, the efforts of the organs of the Kirkwood democracy to the contrary. If Goldsmith had not been convicted the w*liole affair, in both instances, might have been tolerated by the people if only on the ground of consistency. The peo ple believe it Goldsmith w*as guilty they regard Renfroe equally so; and, so be lieving, they cannot relish the principle that different decisions ought to obtain in similar and almost parallel cases of crim inality. In other words, they believe that if Renfroe was innocent that Gold smith was equally so. Speaking for our self we believe Goldsmith was the vic tim of circumstances we do not now* care to mention that forced him to throw* his reputation between others and the law. Indeed, w e say here now* that of the two, Renfroe was most guilty. But, poor Goldsmith had to be made the scapegoat of a weak administration. He had to be the sacrificial offering upon the altar of the Kirkwood democracy of Georgia. But we have no disposition to pursue this unpleasant subject for the present. We do not refrain even now except upon the ground that great injustice has ob tained before the high court of impeach ment that tried tw o men that rested un der charges so similar, and almost paral lel in character and in criminality. The “immortal seventeen” may have reasons for their action in the last instance, but they have not yet set forth facts to sus tain that action in a light sufficiently strong to vindicate the principle present ed by them of coming to different con clusions in two cases where the charges were almost identical in point of crimi nality. THE JASPER CENTENNIAL. The Constitution has sent on a flashy reporter to do up the Jasper celebration in Savannah. We may look out for one of Grady’s characteristic articles, and Jasper will be no where to the orator of the day. We write before the whole bucketful of Grady’s praise is deluged upon the reading public, but we can see it in our mind’s eye as plainly as if it were now set up before us. It will come —no mistake. It is fortunate that the General gets up a “ ’seursion” ’occasionally to give his biographer a little something new' to say. Those old war-fights are getting a little sorter stale, and the last “boom” brought on Colquitt’s salient and floated in Gra dy’s gas, was almost too heavy. As Gov. Brown once said it becomes nauseous in overgrown doses. No household is complete without it. No druggist can afford to omit it from his stock. It has become a necessity, for it never fails to cure Neuralgia and Head ache, and it is called Neuralgine. Sold by I>. W. Curry. sept2s THE “ COLQUITT BOOM.'\ The legislature had not adjourned be fore the Atlanta Constitution had made ready the “sentiments” of certain sena tors, using their opinion to aid Go\. Colquitt in his aspirations for a second term. The ink was not dry on the last legislative page, ere this array of senti ments was handed to the printer. A\ hat is apparent in this effort? Simply this, that Gov. Colquitt’s administration is a ridiculous failure, and he has no support in Georgia except a few - senators (nota bly Renfroe senators) to look to, to help him to a second term of office. We looked upon Renfroe’s acquittal as a move in the interest of Gov. Colquitt. Murphy was on trial as w ell as Renfroe, aitd Murphy is the power behind his ex cellency. Last winter’s investigation showed that fact beyond a doubt. Wbeli ever Murphy shows his hand you may find Gov. Colquitt a stalwart. He may fail to aid Goldsmith; he may be weak on Ur. Janes, and very hard on the geolog ical bureau, but he is always shoulder to shoulder with his henchman, Murphy. In the Nelms’ case, Murphy was inter ested as a lessee, and there you w ill find the governor as stubborn as a mule. It is not he, but Murphy w orking through him and in him. In Renfroe’s case, Murphy was a principal, and the govern- OF JillCl tbft govornoi''o fiiciillS rubiicil to the rescue. As Senator Hill pointedly said, “It is Murphyism in Georgia, equal to Tweedism in New* York.” It is rumored that Murphy first influenced the governor by loaning him some money. Did Tuggle also loan him some money ? Alston, poor fellow, is said by Henry Grady, to have parted with nearly all of that fee of $15,000 in a week. Murphy, a simple clerk in the treasurer’s office, becomes a thirty thousand dollar bonds man for the treasurer, and the governor approves the bond. Murphy could make his jack on any little scheme that he could catch the treasurer in, and he could extort eight thousand dollars from the rolling mill, they appreciating the power that Murphy exercised over both governor and treasurer. It took a long disastrous war to devel op a duke of Marlborough, and our civil war has developed one, Jno. W. Murphy. When he smiled at that unanimous seven teen in the senate, they cried “Renfroe is innocent.” If he will give the right sort of a wink, they will cry “Murphy forever!” The Colquitt boom is a Mur phy combination. With Murphy omitted it is equal to Hamlet in Shakespeare and Hamlet, the Dane, left out. The Dis patch tells us that only 22 pronounced Colquitt innocent in the trial before the legislature as managed by the Constitu tion. Out ot 220 that is a meagre num ber who jump up to say the governor did not “eat the beef.” If he undertakes to run for a second term on such a weakly prop as that, he w ill be left out of sight in the next gubernatorial race. The Constitution was not prudent, thus to show' the weakness of their line, so long before the engagement came on. We have been looking over the forces of the next gubernatorial fight. Look at the brigade! % Colquitt and Gordon, major-generals, handicapped with the convict lease and certain notorious “big fees.” Murphy and Renfroe, their commissary and quar termaster. Nelms, first adjutant, with the seventeen senators to make up the rank and file. Wheugh ! If this is the boom, it will hardly amount to a pinch of snuff! Ohio will not show a cleaner defeat nor a more disastrous rout! Try it again, Constitution. Your “feelings” in the Renfroe case have misled your judgment. Wipe your specs and take another glimpse! GOV.C OL Q UITT AXD IIIS FA IL URES. Both the houses of the legislature have passed a resolution requiring the govern or to sue Renfroe and his securities for the money of the state which they have appropriated and used for their own per sonal profit. He refuses to respond'to the Nelms matter, and treats the house W'ith supreme contempt. While the state is seeking justice in the civil courts, Renfroe and his bondsmen have full con trol over the state funds and it remains entirely with them whether the old ship will not be scuttled and sunk before they give them up. There stands the govern or inert, indifferent, unconcerned, full of schemes for his own political progress, and he sees them in future grange and Sunday school celebrations, ignoring his ow'n constitutional duty of watching and correcting the gross abuses that have made such a stench in Georgia politics. Rumor says the governor has been too closely allied w r ith Murphy to offend him. (He endorsed him last winter.; His ex cellency had already endorsed Nelms in his extortion on Simpson and Grant, and he fails to rebuke him as the house di rects and commands him to do. We shall be satisfied that Nelms had knowl edge of the governor’s connection with the convict lease, until he denies it. We have heard it from what we claim au thentic sources. Then how could he re buke Nelms ? Gordon’s camp or peitentiary seems to run itself without a responsible bond, and the governor is a sort of guardian angel to this peculiar institution. Boor Cox! was not only deprived of his liber ty by Alston’s murder, but Gen. Gordon (using Nelms as his agent) took away all the convicts that Cox had leased, and the poor man w as made to suffer in his pock et, through Nelms’ management of Gor don’s business. The governor knows that fact from the published evidence, but he says not a word. He does not forsake Nelms. We suppose the governor to be a good man in his instincts, but he is so notori ously weak that it amounts to incapacity. The senate acquitted Renfroe because he was too shallow to understand his busi ness, so that may be considered a suita ble excuse for his excellency. If Gov. Colquitt could begin to understand the unrest and uncertainty that his adminis tration has produced, he would hide his head in private life, or perhaps become a public lecturer. The total greenback vote in Ohio did not exceed 8,000. XE WSPA PER AD TER TISIXG. , There are too many country news papers in Georgia for the business to lje profitable. The “patent outside system has inundated the whole country. When a man breaks down in business to which he was trained, he imagines he can win glory as an editor. The first thing to be done is to get an old press, a few* old type and start a “patent outside” newspaper and sally forth as a journalist. These papers cost little and are really worth little. One side of them are gotten up and printed by parties way off at a distance from which the papers are ostensibly is sued who know little or nothing of the wants of the reading public in the com munities in which they are said to be published. There are few* of them that would uot he all the better if they were “patented” on both sides, because they contain little of home interest or of home affairs. They are foreign, to a large ex tent, to the modes of thinking their read ers are used to. By this system legitimate journalism is greatly crippled and home enterprise em barrassed to an extent, as we have inti mated, that makes the newspaper busi ness very unremuneralrive. There is no room for a thorough journalist to perform his duty to his readers in a “patent out siu” paper. Tf he has any capacity for meeting tho wants of the public in pre senting such reading as they desire, be has not room to display it. Nor does he known what that fellow, who edits one side of his paper, is going to give him in a single issue of his paper until his little bundle of papers reach him. What w*e here write is not intended to be offensive to any one. We simply pro pose to state facts as they affect legitimate journalism, and to advance the- cause of those who are striving to give their read ers the benefit of home enterprise and to promote home intererests. If w*e w*ould sustain good home papers let those print ed at home entirely be encouraged. THE SENATE OF GEORGIA. Since the time when Bullock’s legisla ture was thronged by so many so called democrats to lobby and manage that corrupt bod}*, the state of Georgia has never felt so much consternation and suppressed indignation as when the ver dict in the Renfroe case reached this part of the country. Men look each other in the face and ask, “When is this sort of thing to end?” In the race of the same charges with guilt confessed in Renfroe’s case, in the same chamber, before the same court, a set of senatots voted to dis grace one man and barely two weeks in termission they vindicate the other. Certain senators voted on the identi cal same charge of “using state money for their own purposes,” and they plunge one man into political infamy and pro nounce the other guiltless on the same indictment. The conviction is irresisti ble. Something is “rotton in Denmark.” Certain men in that senate has been viewed with doubt since Bullock’s time, ane the people find them wanting when they are tested. The house is an able, patriotic body, intent on protecting the interests of the state. That senate is a “rope of sand,” full of “ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.” There are honorable men in it, and they, thank God, are in a majority, but there are shysters enough to prevent a two-thirds vote by which to vindicate and sustain the truth in the senate of Georgia. Goldsmith’s friends Should mark each man who voted to dis grace him for using state money for his own personal profit, and who pronounc ed Renfroe innocent of the identical same charge. If it was a personal mat ter of ours, w r e would track the injnstiee to the starting point. The independents have been furnished with a cudgel that will prove more potent than Sampson’s jaw bone, in that agonized, organized camp. Mark the prediction! PHIL COOK AS A PROPHET. Editor Dispatch: As four gentlemen sauntered leisurely up Whitehall street, in search of beer, Gen. Gordon overtook the group. Says Phil Cook, “Join us Gordon, we’re hunting good beer.” “No,” says Gordon, “I don’t want any beer;” “Well,” says Phil Cook, (referring to that wonderful historic chapter written for the Constitution —in which Gen. Colquitt all by him self, was made to storm the federal lines at Pe tersburg), “how is it, Gordon, you report battles in which every man is made to appear who wasn’t there, and all who were, can’t get to the surface. Now, Gordon, you do know that Col quitt wasn’t even on the ground. lie had been there but he wasn’t there, and you do not know that my brigade was the only one that ever got inside that federal line, and I was shot down right there.” “Oh,” says Gordon, “that was some of Grady’s foolishness, you can’t hold me responsible for so inaccurate a fellow as Grady.” “Yes,” says Phil, “all right, but Grady says he gothis dots from you—well, your Colquitt is oc cupying a nice salient just now—right between Goldsmith and Renfroe.” “Yes,” says Gordon, bridling up, ami I mean to help him to hold it.” “Phew,” said Cook, the people of Georgia will gallop over that salient, faster than ever my men went over Grant’s line at Petersburg.” Atlanta. We copy the foregoing from the At lanta Dispatch. We will vouch for its truthfulness. It is precisely like Gen. Cook to say just such things, for he will not tolerate frauds. About the time Mr. Hill was elected senator, Henry Grady had as little respect for Gordon as the rest of us. He was as fond of criticising the General as the senator is now prompt to dub him “inaccurate” and “foolish.” If be will say it is agreeable we will tell him what he then thought of Gen. Gor don ; and Gen. Gordon may take the comfort out of the sayings that he pre scribed for Gen. Cook. “Colquitt’s* sa lient,” inflated with “Grady’s gas” is about equal to Gordon’s finance speech before the senate as related by Judge Un derwood. General Ewing now says that justice would seem to require that Mr. Tilden should again be made the standard bearer after his loss of a victory by the gigantic fraud of 1876. Senator David Davis predicted that if Ewing was defeated Grant would be the next republican candidate, and would never leave the white house alive. That remains to be seen. A Massachusetts clergyman preferring to support General Butler, has been by his congregation bulldozed into resign ing. Where’s the military ? LEG A L AD YERTIBIXG. Since ISO”) we have made various efforts to have passed by the legislature some law that would regulate properly legal advertisemonts. - This we have done when it was of no direct interest to our self, but in the cause of justice. It is well known .hat county officers have made merchandise of legal advertising ot which they had direction. In making this statement we have no reference to any officer in Bartow county as not one of them ever made a proposition to us to divide advertising fees with them in or der to secure their patronage. But such a policy has been practiced in this state to our knowledge, and legal advertising of counties given to papers with scarcely any circulation in preference to papers that had the largest circulation —and that, too, for a certain commission of the prin ter’s fee to the officer giving the patron- age. The recent legislature has passed a bill not only giving the legal advertisements of the sever? 1 counties of the state to the papers having the largest circulation therein, but the bill regulates the prices to be paid and makes it penal for any public officer to roceive any fee from the printer for such advertising. The object of the bill is to protect the interests of fiduciary estates and the public generally against the avarices or prejudices of pub lic officers. That far the law is correct; but we do not think the rates are suffi cient according to our reading of the act. If we understand the new law correct ly, The Free Press, we think, is enti tled to all the public printing of this city and county. We know it to be a con ceded fact that our paper has the largest city and county circulation. If our pub lic officers construe the law as we do, we hope they will comply with the same at once. THE RATE OE INTEREST. The legislature passed the following act restricting and regulating the rate of interest in this state and the governor has approved it: An act to regulate and restrict the rate of interest in this state and for other purposes. Section 1. The general assembly do enact, that from and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for any person, company or corporation to re serve, charge, or take for any loan or ad vance of money or forbearance to enforce the collection of any sum of money, any rate ot interest greater than eight per centum, either directly or indirectly by way of commission for advances, dis count, exchange, or by any contract or contrivance or device whatever. Section 2. Be it further enacted, that any person, company or corporation, vi olating the provisions of the foregoing section of this act, shall forfeit the in vestment, the excess of interest so charged or taken or contracted to be re served, charged or taken. Section 3. Be it further enacted, That the legal rate of interest shall remain seven per centum per annum, where the rate per cent is not named in the con tract, and any higher rate must be speci fied in writing; but in no event to ex ceed eight per cent, per annum. Section 4. Be it further enacted, That in all suits hereafter brought in any of the courts of this state upon any account, note, Bond, bill, draft or other evidence of indebtedness, bearing date after the passage of this act, wherein a greater rate of interest is claimed than seven per cent., it shall be incumbent on the plaintiff in such suit or action to show affirmatively by proof that no greater or higher rate of interest than that specified in the contract so sued upon has been taken, received, retained, or in any way or manner secured so as to be thereafter had or taken by any device whatever. Section 5. Be it further enacted. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. La Grange Reporter: “Sambo, you are charged with stealing a pig. What hat e you to say for yourself? ” “Well, Mars Jedge, I own up. I did take dat pig; but I didn’t know it was worng. l)e man what lived in my house ’fore I did, useter take pigs, and I bin takin’ pigs all along, and never knowed it was wrong ’twell I took dis one, and de boss told me it was agin de law. I’m willin’ to give up dis pig if you’ll let me off.” “All right, Sambo; if you did not know it was against the law to steal pigs, you have not committed any offense. You are discharged.” Mr. Parnell, in a recent speech in Ire land, said the prices of all agricultural produce have “fallen lOf per cent.” The bottom must be out, at that rate. An old inhabitant has been found who declares that in October and Novem ber, 1574, the thermometer ranged along in the eighties for nearly fifty days and nights. Last week a Wisconsin judge was shot down in his doorway, and on the next day his assassin was walking the streets unmolested. The north has no outrages to speak of. 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R- The following is the present passenger sched nip * NIGHT PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta *53 pm Leave Cartersville n I, m Leave Kingston 7 'lonm Leave Dalton a -47 ~ m Arrive at Chattanooga p m NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga Leave Dalton H Hvm Leave Cartersville Arrive at Atlanta 11.00 p m DAY PASSENGER—CP. Leave Atlanta -'oS n ™ Leave Cartersville Leave Kingston Leave Dalton Arrive at Chattanooga DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga “ Deave Dalton Leave Kingston m Leave Cartersville 10:11 a m Arrive at Atlanta 12:0o p m CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—CP. Leave Atlanta 5:10 p m Arrive at Cartersville • .n p m CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—DOWN. Leave Cartersville 6:05 am Arrive at Atlanta 8:4,) a m JjiERRINE MEDICINE CO. LOST! It is an established fact that Quinine or Cin chonidia will stop Chills, and for this purpose there is no better remedy. But it is also an es tablished fact that they do not remove the cause that produces the Chills. For if they did, the Chills would not return on the 7tli, 14th, 21st, or 28th day. Then is it not money LOST to attempt to permanently cure the Chills with Quinine or Cinchonidia, when they do not remove the cause from the system that produces them? For until the cause is removed, the Chills will return. The FERRINE Is warranted to remove every cause from the system that produces the Chills, and if it fails to do this you will sustain no loss, for every drug gist is authorized to guarantee a permanent cure in every case, no matter of how long standing and will refund the money if the Chills return after you arc through taking. Positively no cure, no pay. Try it and be convinced. It contains no poison, and is perfectly tas tel csss and a per manent cure guaranteed in all cases. FERRINE MEDICINE CO., E. W. GROVE, Manager, Paris, Tenn. For sale by D. W. CURRY, Agent. aug7 THE Bargain Store ! IN FULL BLAST! WE TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING to our customers and the public generally that our stock of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, is now full and complete—embracing everv ar “ kept in a FIRST CLASS STORE* REMEMBER, YOU CAN GET ANYTHING YOU WANT AT OUR STORE— Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes and Hats, Clothing-, Groceries, Tin, Hardware, Crockery, and Glassware, Etc., Etc., All at less figures than you can buy anywhere else in town. Be sure you price our goods before buying, and you will most assuredly save money by buying at THE BARGAIN STORE. oct2-tf M- L. FLOWERS * CO. THE CEORCIA STATE FAIR, •A. T MACON, From October 27, to November Ist, 1879. The Most Magnificent and Best Appointed Grounds in America! LIBERAL CASH PREMIUMS in all Classes, ami the Largest Offered by any Pair in the United States! Trotting and Running Races Every day, by some of the most noted Horses on the Turf. Music will be furnished by a celebrated Military Band. Many of the Promtnent Statesmen, now before the Public, will attend the State Fair as visitors, and several will make addresses. GREATLY REDUCED RATES For freights and passengers on all the railroads in the State. A CORDIAL INVITATION IS EXTENDED to you to be an Exhibitor, and you are re quested to write to the Secretary at Macon, for a Premium List and other information, THOS. HARDEMAN, Jr., President. I. F. LIVINGSTON, Gen’l. Supt. MALCOLM JOHNSTON, Secretary. For Sale. THE DWELLING HOUSE AND LOT LATE- Iy occupied by John A. Erwin in Carters ville, Ca. The lot contains eight acres a line pasture, orchard and kitchen garden. The house has seven rooms, with cook room and kitchen attached. There are stables and all other nec essary outhouses on the premsses. To a respon sible purchaser liberal terms will be eiven Call ou or address T. WARREN AKIN. ’ aug2B-tf Cartersville, Ga. THE FREE PRESS. An Independent Democratic Journal. 1879 FOR 1870. C. H. C. 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