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excepted):
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Arrive at Stilesbora .so a m
Arrive at Taylorsville B:o2am
Arrive at Rockmart
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RETURNING.
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Arrive at Taylorsville
Arrive at Stileshoro
Aarrive at Carters ville . ■ . . • . 0:00 pm
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MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Rome daily ,s : i?
Return to Rome daily 10’00 a m
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R. Jt. at Kingston, to and from Atlanta ana
points south.
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county, on commission. They have on hand for
sale several desirable farms located in dillerent
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VOLUME 11.
M. LIEBMAN & BRO.,
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POSITIVELY SELLING OUT AT COST.
BEING FULLY DETERMINED TO GIVE UP OUR BUSINESS HERE WE WILL SELL
from now on until our ENTIRE STOCK of
DRYGOODS, CLOTHING, HATS,
DRY COODS, CLOTHING, HATS,
DRY COODS, CLOTHINC, HATS,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
Is Sold at and Below NEW YORK COST.
If possible we will wind up our business by the First of September next, but any goods
we may have on hand then,
WILL BE SOLD A.T AUCTION.
We mean business this time—no child’s talk, so if you want to secure BARGAINS you had
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Bear In Mind Our Whole Stock will Have to be Sold by the First of
September, and any Goods left on hand will be sold at Auction, to
gether with Store Fixtures:
Show Cases, Looking Glasses, Bedsteads, Ward
robes, Desks, Chairs Etc., Etc.
Our Business in Nashville requires our Full Attention, which Com
pels us to Give up Here. Respectfully,
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Cartersville, Georgia.
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u. O. ROBERTSON, M. D.,
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Therapeutist,
Begs leave to announce to the
citizens of Bartow, Gordon, Cobb, Cherokee,
and 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 in all parts of
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, and the
only place where all kinds ol cura.ble diseases
are scientifically treated without a particle of
medical dnig in any form, and with success un
paralelled by any other known process of treat
-lU£ artieswlio are, because of continued dosing
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spectfully requested to visit or correspond with
us Thousands of chronic invalids, after having
patiently tried the “deadly virtues of the (drug
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than that of growing continually worse and
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particulars, call at ATLANTA HEALTH
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’ DE u G> ROBERTSON
feb2o Atlanta,, Ga.
For Sale.
THE DWELLING HOUSE AND LOT LATE-
Iv occupied by John A. Erwin in < arters
ville/Ca. The lot contains eight acres aline
pasture, orchard and kitchen garden. Ihe house
has seven rooms, with cook room and kitchen
attached. There are stables ami ad other mc
essarv outhouses on the premsses. To a respon
sible purchaser liberal term 8 wi B
Gall on or addreaa T. TV ARKEN AKIN.
aug?B-tf Cartersville, Ga.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1880.
AN OLD ROMAN.
A Few Words from Him to the Jupiter
Tonans of the “Organized."
To The Free Press:
Personally, I am not hostile to Gov
ernor Colquitt. Ido not know enough
about him to be hostile to him as a man,
a preacher or an elegant gentleman. All
these are claimed for him by his friends.
Granted. I have not been pleased with
him as governor. He paid some thous
ands of dollars to scsne Atlanta lawyers
for lobbying fees, without an act of the
legislature who were admitted to be hi 9
ardeut admirers amlpersonal friends. A
clerk in the treasury department, finding
out by spiritualism, that he was going to
sign some railroad bonds involving the
state for thousands more, got eight thous
and dollars to get him to sign. We have
always believed with Graves, the great
Baptist divine, that these spiritualists had
comrnunicatioi with the devil. This may
be a weakness, but still that is our opin
ion. After every body else had failed to
get an indorsement of some other railroad
bonds by the state, a certain notable took
the matter in hand, and the governor
“fell like an autumn leaf.” As an in
spired writer has said, ‘Time would fail
me to tell” of things the governor has
done that don’t pleaseme.
He has “shucked out” two splendid
estates that Providence has thrown into
his hand; if anythihfc is left, a third
term will “shuck out’ the state treasury.
He is the full equal of “the devil among
the tailors.” Upon tfcat pinciple is it, he
proposes to run overthe two terms here
tofore allowed to our governors? Grant
is running the same idea for president.
Democrats —organized /I'**-“crab-—think
it is monstrous I Moafetrousj in a candi
date for president I All right for a dem
ocratic governor. “Oh, consistency,
thou art a jewel.” Athe common peo
ple indeed fools ? That’s the question,
“to be or not to be,”
It is said Gen. Gordon says, “he shall
here-elected.” Does he 5 Gen. Gordon
has beat Hill, Felton and Stephens by
radical help, before congress on Simmons.
He plumes himself. Ye Gods! “I am
every inch a man,” kesays; “lam still
a lieutenant-general )f the confederate
forces.”
The common peojle, General, when
we have no war, are ajompound of strong
common sense and fl-rnness. Napoleon
went from the fancie4eonquest of Russia
to the isle of Elba, a Solitary isle, impo
tent in his rage. He stempted too much.
General, take the advee of a man who
was once your friend and admirer, and
who is not yet youi enemy, attend to
your senatorial duties Be satisfied with
the honors of a confijittir people. You
uioa nic mstrrape® business, the
steam saw mill business, the sheep rais
ing business, and aga/n, “time would
fail to tell” the businesses you have tried.
Dabbling in alt little political intrigues,
controlling everything from census-taker
to governor will prove too much even for
Hercules. He carried the woild on his
shoulders. He never tried to carry the
sun, moon and stars. General, we are
not your enemy. Patience is our leading
virtue. But don’t vaunt yourself too
much. We intend to go with the “or
ganized democracy” if we can. It is the
best chance, unless it is the “indepen
dents.”
“If Colquitt is not nominated lie will
run anyhow.” “lie can get the negro
vote against any man in the state —he has
preached to them and led them —reli-
giously, till they believe in him.” This
is commonly talked. Well! it may be so.
The best evidence is positive proof. Let
him try it, either with or without a
nomination, We prophesy for him a de
feat unparalleled in the history of the
What is worse, the total disorgan
ization of the democratic party. We
have admired Gen. Gordon. vrun
the power we possessed, we supported
him for governor. We do not desire to
lose all respect for him. Let your friend
Colquitt, notwithstanding all his deficien
cies, be satisfied with four years. If,
General, you expect to retain the respect
of the people of Georgia, have some re
spect for manifest public opinion. Don’t
be deceived by the cackling of a few
geese, who propose to carry evety thing
by noise and the flapping of their wings.
We are troubled with a great many little
democratic yearlings, who paw the
ground, and butt clay roots, and bellow
most lustily. General, they are a hum
bug. Changing the figure, “the solid
men of Boston,” “are wide awake and
duly sober.”
The success of democratic principles,
not the “so-called” democratic party, led
bj Tilden and other bank monopolists, is
dear to our hearts (the true democracy).
We have no inheritance in third term
governors. Democrats of Georgia!
True democrats! Democrats in princi
ple! How can we fight Grant with a
broken down, dilapidated general, trying
to run in on the third term idea? Pause
and think ! Is democracy a principle, or
a mere scramble (as Jack Randolph said)
for loaves and fishes ?
Gov. Colquitt is pious—we don’t doubt
it. We are pious ourselves. We hope
his sermons to his colored brethren may
carry the last one to heaven; we some
times think they are not likely to be of
much use on earth, and heaven is the best
place for them. But, but, but, don’t
make it a point upon which to put him in
the third time for governor.
Is it blasphemous to sigh for a Jeffer
son, a Jackson, or a Douglass once more
to lead the democracy? Maybe so. The
best we can do perhaps—Colquitt* my
dear friend, Gen. P. M. B. Young (I am
told this is only half his name) with con
federate immortality, and that last of
great exploits, the “Cobb county ar
tillery business.”
The general has “congress on the
brain.” With such leaders, oh! democra
cy, raise your banners, and with “peal
ing fife and rolling drum,” march on to
victory. Nous verrons.
Ax old Whig,, a Progressive Demo
crat, and a Live Roman.
AN INTERESTING PROBLEM.
To The Free Press •
Perhaps no class of men hare been
more severely critcized, and I will add,
none more just!y # so, than our state legis
lators, seemingly forgetful of the im
portant fact that “government was in
stituted for the benefit of the governed.”
They, like other sinners, in the humble
words of the old brother’s prayer, “have
done those things which they ought not
to have done, and have left undone those
things which they ought to have done.”
That they have carelessly neglected the
best interests of the state is manifested
from the the annual reports of the comp
troller-general. That they have thought
lessly squandered the people’s money is
not as they would have us fondly imag
ine “an empty dream,” but an absolute
fact, officially shown by “the figures,
which do not lie.”
I have only time and space to call at
tention to one item—one that vitally con
cerns every mao, woman and child in
Georgia. Our present system of eduta
tion, it pains me to say, is worse than
none, absolutely. It is a useless expen
diture, and as the old negro quaintly ex
pressed it, “a null and void.”
The report of the comptroller-general
for the pagt year (1879) shows that the
public school fund, collected and expend- I
ed for the year, was $383,961.31. Of this
amount the officers received upwards of
$50,000. The school population of the
state, as shown by the same report, is
433,752 pupils.
I submit that the present funds are
amply large, as I am prepared to show,
economically and judicially expended,
to maintain ten month schools through
out the entire borders of the state.
Divide the school population (433,752
pupils) by 30, taking an average of thirty
pupils to the teacher, and we find that
all the public schools of the state can be
taught by fourteen hundred and forty-five
(1,445) teachers. Deducting the salaries
of the officers (in short, abolish the
offices) we have the sum as given above,
of $383,961.31 with which t*> employ teach
ers. Dividing this sum by the number
of teachers (1,445)' and we find that each
teacher would receive for his ten months
labor the sum of two hundred and sixty
five dollars, and seventy-two cents, (265.-
72). Competent and reliable teachers
could be easily secured for this amount.
Now, let us have the conclusion of the
Denmark.” One of two things is evi
dent; either the people of Georgia have
been miserably neglected, or else figures
do lie. It has been said, and' wisely,
perhaps, that
“Truth crushed to earth will rise ajjain,”
but when and how, God only knows.
W. M. C.
DR. FELTON’S SPEECH.
Office Sentinel, Chicago, 111., April
1, 1880.—Hon. W. H. Felton Dear Sir:
1 publish this week your speech of the
20th of March. I not only present it to
my 30,000 readers, but have sterotyped
the type, (after correcting typographical
errors which will oecnr) and printed 10,-
000 extra copies, which I propose to put
out.
This is a substantial endorsement on
my part of the argument which you make.
But Ido wish you had advocated their
payment, or at least a portion, in green
backs; and Ido icish you had advocated
taxation upon incomes—the only w’ay to
affect the distribution of w'ealth which
you approve, and which every thinking
man sees the necessity of. And the re
lease of the tax upon tutmooo, whiek*y,
and many other articles.
1. Abolition of the national bonds.
2. Unlimited coinage of silver.
3. Extinguishment of the public debt.
4. An income tax.
The above principles I believe might
be engrafted into a platform that would
meet the approval of two-thirds of the
people of this entire country.
I’m truly, yours, S. F. Norton,
Editor and Publisher Sentinel.
It is a very easy matter to criticise a
newspaper, but to publish one, so as to
interest, amuse and instruct the public,
is no small undertaking. Those who
are so prone to find fault with every item
which does not suit their critical and ex
alted ideas, should buy type, ink and pa
per, and publish an organ of their own.
Let them try it for three months only,
and if it don’t give them some new
ideas of the newspaper business, then w r e
are no judge of human nature. The con
ceit wrnuld be taken out of such individ
uals so quickly that they would hardly
know what was the matter with them or
w hether they stood on their hands or
feet. We, however, would suggest a
trial.
“Oh dear! I feel so tired,” signed Mrs.
Hickenlooper, as she sank into a chair.
“Well, I should think you would be.”
growled Mr. Hickenlooper as he put on
his coat to go out, “you tramped around
more’n seven miles this afternoon mak
ing your silly calls. I shouldn’t call my
self half bright if I did such a thing.”
And then he went down the street and
walked nine miles around a billiard table
at twenty-five cents an hour, and she
thought how hard he had to work at his
business, poor man, when he came home
at midnight and dragged his enfeeble
limbs into bed. Some women are just like
that.
A. S. Abell, of th*' Baltimore Sun , has
contracted for ten thousand acres of tim
ber laud iu Fla.
THE GEORGIA OUTLOOK.
Wht a Correspondent of a New York
Republican Paper Thinks of It.
New York Times.]
Atlanta, Ga., April 2.—The demo
cratic state committee met here on March
30 to arrange for the coming state and
national campaigns. The convention to
choose delegates to the presidential con
vention was called to meet here on June
9. The convention to nominate electors
and a full state ticket was called for Au
gust 4. The committee is composed of
23 representative men from all parts of
the state, 10 of whom were present.—
Though their deliberations were harmo
nious, the proceedings and the gossip
which was current among them indicated
clearly two things:
First —That the organized democracy
of Georgia is making every effort possi
ble to conciliate the large independent
element in the state. It requires no great
political knowledge to see that if the op
position to the present party machinery
is not checked before the elections, it can
easily unite with the remnant of a once
powerful republican party and defeat the
bourbons. This fact has been freely ad
mitted by several members of the com
mittee. A resolution declaring that the
past was forgotten, and urging all inde
pendents to co-operate with the organ
ized party, was unanimously adopted.
Representatives from the seventh and
ninth districts asked for such measures
as would stop the defection from the par
ty ranks, and admitted that their districts
were hopelessly gone to the opposition,
unless some reform be instituted in the
party methods hitherto used. Consider
ing the fact that the general tone of the
organization to the indepenpents has al
ways been denunciatory, this effort at re
conciliation is very suggestive. It will
not, however, accomplish its purpose.—
The opposition has suffered abuse and os
tracism so long that it has a keen appe
tite for the victory which is now in its
reach. Independent sentiments were a
disgrace in Georgia 10 years ago, and
placed the same shadow on a man as did
the crime of being a republican. Grad
ually it grew to be less and less offensive,
until it assumed the guise of an error
which ought to be utterly crushed before
it had time to spread its political heresies.
But the “evil” continued to spread un
til, at the last election, it captured two
Georgia districts, divided a third, and
made organization impossible; whipped
the organization in another to nominate
the man it wanted; and came near cap
turing the Atlanta district, after running
riot, with 500 majority, in this great
head-centre of the bourbon power in the
ffftt'buii-Vitwnig~3ehiocracy ’aftu cogged
its tone very much. The independents
were gravely told that they were putting
democratic supremacy in Georgia in great
peril. Their invariable answer was that
they were tired of political tyrranny of
a ring and the domination of a few petty
politicians. They were willing to trust
the people for an honest government
sooner than that power which had prom
ised it time and again, but had never giv
en it. “Independentism” gained greatly
in respectability from this time. A party
which counted Alexander Stephens, Dr.
Felton, ex- United States Senator Miller,
Judge Wright, Gen. Wofford, and othei
men of that class among its leaders, and
which had just polled a third of the
whole vote of the state, was well worth
attention. It was abused less and argued
with more. It has made good use of its
victories, and is to-day so formidable tha
the “high and mighty” bourbon democ
racy has actually bended the knee and
assumed the tone of a suppliant instead of
the lash of the master. Probably not a
single vote will be gained by this sudden
and suggestive change of policy, while it
will appear as a sort of confession of de
feat, nnd thus cause the defection of that
large class which always seek the win
ning side. A leading member of the
committee said yesterday: “We must
watch this independent movement. It is
to-day better organized than are we, the
so-called organized democracy.”
It is no extravagant prediction to say
that the independents are better prepar
ed for the next state election than the
organized democracy and that it is their
own fault if they do not elect a majority
of the Georgia delegation to congress, as
well as an entire state ticket. Friends of
Gov. Colquitt who believe that he can
obtain a renomination are seriously ad
vising him to cut lose from the “machine”
and anuounce himself an independent
candidate for re-election. It has come
to pass that a democratic nomination is
actually regarded as a handicap in a
Georgia election. It is thought that the
governor’s friends are advising him
wisely, and it is hoped that he will follow
their counsels.
Second —Another fact disclosed by the
session of the committee yesterday was
the democracy of Georgia is going into
the presidential canvass with very little
spirit. There is among its leaders and
among the ranks and followers a feeling
that the fight is lost already and that
resistenee is hopeless. In 1876 all was
confidence in advance of the nomination,
and there was a feeling that any good
man could be elected by the national de
mocracy. Now a majority of the party
iu this state has given up the contest,
while the more hopeful minority is en
gaged in an anxious search for an avail
able man. The members of the com
mittee were interviewed on their person
al preference for the presidency. Al
most every one prefaced the announce
ment of his choice by saying, “I am for
anybody w r e can oleeL” It is conceded
among the leaders of the party in Geor
; gi.i, and by the pres- of 4he ' • • , line.
: Grant will be nominated, and toe nsu,.l
[ comment after such a concession is, “and
NUMBER 40.
elected, too.” Of course, there is a good
deal of bold talk in the party, and the
suggestions of confessed defeat will be
indignantly denied, but the “inside” talk
shows that the prevailing opinion
opinion is that the coming canvass
is a forlorn hope for the democ
racy. This feeling is based mainly on
the idea that Grant will be the republi
can nominee. With Riaine or Sherman
at the head of the opposition, there would
be among democrats enthusi
asm and confidence of success. If Gen.
Grant is nominated, there will be all over
the south, if not a rush to his support, at
least a feeling that his election is inevita
ble, and a canvass will be seen as weak
and hopeless as that for Greeley in 1872.
IION. EMORY SrEER.
We print below the leading editorial of
the LaGrange Reporter of two weeks ago.
To do so gives us very great pleasure, be
cause the Reporter is one of our contem
poraries which is of the straightest or
ganized sect. It is printed at Mr. Speer's
old home, and no one can accuse it of
bias or prejudice.
The Athens Watchman, commenting
upon this editorial, says: From a private
letter from our correspondent in Wash
ington, we are informed that Mr. Steph
ens says that the editorial is neither over
drawn nor exaggerated. This endorse
ment is a great compliment, and will be
keenly appi'eciated by the numerous
friends of ©ur sroung5 r oung representave in the
ninth district:
“This gentleman, the brilliant repre
sentative of the ninth district, has begun
a congressional career which we confi
dently expect to see crowned with the
highest distinction for himself and great
honor for his state. While the pages of
Georgia’s history already shine witli the
names of many illustrious sons who by
their exalted gifts and broad statesman
ship have made for themselves world
wide reputations, we believe another has
been added to the long list, which will
not suffer by the contrast. Mr. Speer is
eminently adapted to the duties of public
life. Entering congress at thirty years
of age, after one of the most brilliant
campaigns in the history of the state,
winning his election by his wonderful
powers of popular oratory, he has already
demonstrated his fitness for the position
he holds—made himself felt in the legis
lation of the nation, and proven himself
worthy of the support of his people.—
While we are organized in onr politics,
we have always, we trust, had that fair
ness and breadth of view which would
cause us to lecognize true merit, and to
uphold whatever we believed for the
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adopted by the press in many localities
in vilifying every opponent, whether of
platform or contest. Mr. Speer has had
the courage to put himself on the side of
moral legislation. He has been ridiculed
throughout the country as the author of
the “Brass Band Bill;” but Judge Loch
rane to the contrary notwithstanding,
be has strengthened himself among the
best people of his district, and has to-day
the grateful recognition by every good
mail of the south of his attempt to stay
the tide of sabbath desecration that is
sweeping over the land. There is a moral
principle in the bill which goes to the
extent of the power of cotigress on this
question that is vital to our prosperity as
a Christian nation. For our part, we are
glad that Georgia’s name will be connect
ed in the developments of the great fu
ture with this effort to secure the recog
nition of the saoredness of God’s holy
day.
“Mr. Speer has also taken a broad,
statesman-like view ot the administration
of our government. Ilis speech against
“riders on appropriation bills” was Web
sterian in character, and we hope pro
phetic of a return of the high-plane leg
lation of the old days. The south is in
the union to stay. We are one people.
This conviction is being rapidly spread
throughout the north, and the party of
the future must stand, not on sectional
issues, but upon those that involve the
highest good of the whole country. We
give Mr. Speer the hand of our encour
agement in the work he has begun, and
look with interest upon his future ca
reer.”
William McDonald and his family,
consisting of wife and two boys, living
in a log cabin in Pine Nut Valley, were
suddenly startled a few nights since,
about midnight, by a sudden crashing in
of the roof and a large pile of dirt that
began falling on their bed. The old man
jumped up, lit his candle and found two
huge, shaggy limbs a straddle ot one of
the rafters. He seized a sharp axe, and,
getting his family away from the bed,
with a single blow at each he served
them from the body, the animal in the
meantime roaring with rage and pain
and unable to extricate himself from the
logs and poles that held him a close pris
oner. In his struggle one of the rafters
broke, and the family rushed outside of
the house. A rifle standing at the door,
toe old man grabbed it as they went out;
this happened to be loaded. They con
cluded to build a big lire, and when fair
ly burning the glare and heat attracted
the animal to the door, and it proved to
be a monstrous Chinaman bear. His
growl and groans were frightful, and the
old man finally raised his rifle within ten
feet of his head and fired, and the huge
brute was dead. —Bodie (Cal.) Xews-.
Bill Lewis, a desperate character, was
assassinated in Live Oak county, Texas,
while skinning a deei lie had killed. It
is said that one thousand dollars, was paid
for the assassination. Lewis ws a wit
ties, tiiid iu >' thought their object was to
get him out of the way.
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