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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.
It is Officially declared that California
has a solid republican delegation in con
gress.
FALL, AND WINTFK GOODS.
A Large and Elegent Stock.
H. W. SATTERFIELD
Takes pleasure in announcing to
the public that he has returned from the
Northern market with a splendid stock of
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
Which he is now offering for sale at the lowest
cash prices. lie would say to his friends that he
makes a specialty of, and has on hand a large
stock of Men’s and Women’s
ZIEGLER’S FAMOUS SHOES!
The best hand-made work offered to the public.
He has also a splendid line of
Stetson’s Fashionable Hats.
He offers so the public a magnificent stock of
READY - MADE CLOTHING !
Of the best quality, aud most respectfully in
vites his frieuds to give him a call before pur
chasing.
TO THE LADIES.
My stock of dross aud domestic goods is full
and completo. The ladies will here find the most
fashionable dress goods to be found in town, se
lected with great care to meet the wants of his
customers. GIVE ME A CALL.
octiG R. W. SATTERFIELD.
Traveler’s CTaide
-2r^OSrRIVERNAVIGATION.
liiivx.' ETO" All BIEL.. # , sam
Leave Rone Tuesday . - - ; • • . ti a m
Arrive at Gadsden \V ednesaaj t 7 p m
Leave Gadsden Wednesday . • • • . 5 p m
Arrive at Rome Thursday * .Bam
Leave Rome Friday ••• • ; ; ; . 7 am
Arrive at Gadsden ssaturuaj . . 9a m
Arrives at Greensport • • • .6pm
‘president and Gen’jSufft^
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, June 3rd, trains on this
Road will “ “SSPivmr day.
. 8:10 a m
Leave Rome 12 :00 m
Arrive at Rome *
SATURDAY EVENING
Leave Rome
Arrive at Rome * —*
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
excepted): .7:4oam
Leave Cartersville # 8:80 am
Arrive at Stilesbora 8:52 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 10:00 am
Arrive at Rockmart in-so a m
Arrrive at terminus
returning.
. . a . . . 3:00 p m
Leave terminus
Arrive at Rockmart -45 cm
Arrive at Taylorsville -is it m
Arrive at Stilesboro 6*oo i> m
—A arrive at Cartersville . • • • • • I— l —
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. 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. WILLINGHAM, EDITOR,
THE FREE PRESS
t
Will remain the unflinching exponent of the
free and independent voters and the friends of
political freedom throughout the Seventh Con
gressional District; and will support the great
principles of Jeffersonian Democracy as the
grand bulwark of American liberty.
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•
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