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M. L. JOHNSON,
ATTORN KY - A r r -liA. W ,
cARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
office: east side public square, next door to
Uul. rts’Livery Stable. a P r^
]. W.MII.NKK. HARRIS, JB.
MILNER & HARRIS,
ATTO RNEYS-AT-L AAV,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office on West Main Street. .j" 1 ?!!
K. W. MIKPHEY,
A T TOHNEY-AT - LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
omsgaa&sar
\V. T. WOFFORD,
A TT o rnky-at-law,
—AND—
dealer IN real estate,
, 4gg otaTIOS, BABTOUT COPCTY^aA.
DOUGLAS WIKLE.
JNO. L. MOOS.
MOON & WIKLE,
Attorneys-at-Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.*
j A Office m Rank Block, over the Postoffice.
, J. M.NKKI,
h. n. tkitpe.
TRIP PE & NEEL,
A r T rO KN EYS-AT-LA AV ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
tU TILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS,
YY both ♦date and Federal, except Bartow
•ountv criminal court. J. M. Neel alone will
„uriiVv iii said last mentioned court. Office in
...rtheast corner of court house building. leb27
graham. a. m. foute.
GRAHAM & FOUTE,
A T T OKNPIYS -A T - X. A W.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Practice in all tlie courts of Bartow county, the
Superior Courts of North-west Georgia, and the
Courts ut Atlanta. .
Office, west side public Square, np-stiurs over
W. W. Rich & Co’s. Store, second dooi south of
post office. _ —r— i. —-
JAMES li. CONYERS,
A T T O RNEY-AT-LA AV
AND
Notary Public,
Cartrsvili.e, : : '• : Georgia.
(Office: Bank block, up-stairs.)
W7ILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF
YY the Cherokee and adjoining circuits.
Prompt attention given to all business. Col
lections made a specialty. june2i)-ly
I’. M. JOHNSON, Dentist,
(Office over Stokcly & IV illiams store.)
Cartersvii.he, Georgia.
I IVill EHj j TEETH, EXTRACT TEETH,
and put in teeth, or do any work in my line
at prices to suitt tie times.
Il‘ Work at. warranted. Refer to my pat
rons all over tlie county.
aii"ls-ly. F. M. JOHNSON.
JOHN T. OWEN,
(At Sayre & Co.’s Drug Store,)
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
A \ TILL Bell Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
V V Spectacles, Silver and Silver-Plated
Goods, and will sell them as cheap as they can
be bought anywhere. Warranted to prove as
represented. 'All work done by me warranted
to give satisfaction. Give me a call. julylS.
' J ’ iv-tveler’s Griiide.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R.
The following is the present passenger sched
ule:
NIGIIT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 8:00 pm
Leave Cartcrsville 4:53 pm
Leave Kingston 5:19 p m
Leave Dalton 7:10 pm
Arrive at Chattanooga 8:47 pm
NIGIIT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:25 pm
Leave Dalton 7:10 pm
Leave Kingston 8:39 pm
Leave Cartcrsville 9:05 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 11:00 pm
DAY PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 5:20 am
Leave Cartcrsville 7:28 a m
Leave Kingston 7:49 am
Leave Dalton 9:21 am
Arrive at Chattanooga 10:56 am
DAY TASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 6:15 am
i.eave Dalton 8:10 am
Leave Kingston . . ’ 9:43 am
Leave Cartcrsville 10:11 am
Arrive at Atlanta 12:05 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION—UP.
Leave Atlanta
Arrive at Cartcrsville • 7:22 pm
CARTERSVILLE ACCOMMODATION —DOWN.
Leave Cartcrsville 6:05 am
Arrive at Atlanta . . • • . . . 8:45 am
COOSA RIVER NAVIGATION.
On and after December Kith, 1878, the following
schedule will be run by the Steamers MAGNO
LIA or ETOWAH BILL:
Leave Rome Tuesday Bam
Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday . . . . 6am
Leave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday spm
Leave Rome Friday Bam
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday 7am
Arrives at Greensport Pam
Arrive at Rome Saturday 6pm
,1. M. ELLIOTT. President and Gen’l Sup’t.
CHBROKER RAILROAD.
On and after Monday, Sept. 1, 1879, the train
on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
excepted):
Leave Cartcrsville 7:40 a m
Arrive at Stilesbora 8:30 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:52 a m
Arrive at Uockmart 10:00 am
Arrrive at terminus 10:50 am
RETURNING.
Leave terminus 3:00 pm
Arrive at Uockmart 3:40 pm
Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 pm
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:13 pm
A arrive at ( a rtersville 6:00 p m
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On anl after Monday, November 17, the Rome
Railroad will run two trains daily, as follows:
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Rome daily 6:30 am
Return to Rome daily 10’00 a m
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Rome daily (except Sundays) . 5:00 p m
Arrive at Rome ’ 8:00 p m
Both trains will make connection with W. & A.
R. R. at Kingston, to and from Atlanta and
points south.
EBEN HILLYER,
,Tas. A. Smith, President.
G. P. Agt.
ijm Mini ii i irrr!■■■ i—in———n
1> L F F GR£ E N HOU SE,
Dalton, Ga.
THE BEST and CHEAPEST HOTEL
On the Kennesaw Route.
BREAKFAST AND SUPPER HOUSE FOR
PASSENGERS.
Special Attention Given to the Comfort and Con
venience of Lady Passengers and guests.
Reading and Sample Rooms for Commeicial
Travelers.
Board per day, $2.00; Meals, 50 cts.
Railroaders, County and Stockmen, half
fare.
THEO. E. SMITH. J. W. PRITCHETT.
SMITH PRITCHETT
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Propose to buy and sellall kinds
of Real Estate in Cartcrsville and Bartow
comity, on commission. They have on hand for
sale several desirable farms located in ditlerent
parts of the county.
They respectfully solicit business of all par
ties desiring to sell or buy town property or
farming lands. Their tei’ms will be reasonable.
Office in Planters’ and Miners’bank, Carters
ville, Ga. sepH
VOLUME 11,
M. LIEBMAN & BRO.,
Groing out of Business!
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
m
*
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HATS,
DRYGOODS, CLOTHINC, HATS,
DRYGOODS, CLOTHING, HATS,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES,
%
A
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 vYT AUCTION.
We mean business this time—no child’s talk, so if you want to secure BARGAINS >ou had
better call early and secure choice of goods while our stock is complete yet.
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 Grlasses, Bedsteads, Ward
robes, Desks, Chairs Etc., Etc.
Our Business in Nashville requires our Full Attention, which Com
pels us to Cive up Here. Respectfully,
M. LIEBMAN & BRO.
Cartersville, Georgia.
P. S. We will Positively from now on not sell any Goods except for
CASH.
Those Parties indebted to us will please call at once and settle
their account.
All Accounts not settled by the first of July next, will be given in
the hands of our lawyer for collection.
3.18.2 m M. LIEBMAN A BRO.
-['READ THIS PLEASE! ‘-
.A-IMD :
iREMEMBER WHEIST YOTJ GO TO BUY:
: YOUR
SPRING AND SUMMER DRY GOODS. CLOTHING
Notions, Shoes, Hats, Etc., Etc.,
BOYD Ac HABLAN, ;
Rome, Greorgia.
We arc offering a stock, which fo*r magnitude, quality, style and beauty is not surpassed by
and equaled fcybut few in North Georgia.
SPECIAL ATTENTION is called to our enormous stock of
Scotch Dress Ginghams, Dress Linen, Grass Cloth,
Figured Lawns and Piques, White and Col’d. Hamburg Edgings
Insertings, Marseilles, Quilts, Etc., Etc.
Our stock in these goods surpass anything in this market. Our stock of
Dress Goods, Custom Made Shoes, Cassimeres,
Straw Hats, Millinery Goods, Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
is extensive and varied.
We have some extra bargains and will make prices so low on everything, that you can’t help but
being pleased. Come to see us or send for samples and prices. Respectfnll},
4 . 15 _ 2m
CAMP, GLOVER Ac CO.,
51 and 53 Broad Street, ROME, CA.
OUR SPRING STOCK OF STAPLE DRY GOODS, BOOTS,
Shoes, Hats, Carpets, Mattings, Etc.,
Is unusually large, and merchants will And our prices the very lowest. Large stock of
Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Ladies* and Gents’ Ties,
Kid Gloves from 20 cents to #2.50 per Pair,
Lace Top Kid Gloves, Latest Style.
Our Spring Stock of DRESS GOODS have been selected with great care, and is the largest
in North Georgia. TRIMMINGS to match every piece of goods.
Ladies ordering by mail can rely on getting what they want.
Bi tterick’sPatterns for sale. Samples sent on application. Goods will be sent C. O. D. at bot
tom prices. (3-18) C AIM IP, GLOVER & CO-_
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE ES
TATE of S. M. Frauks, deceased, are here
by notified to come forward and settle, and all
persons holding claims against said estate are
notified to present them to us properly proven,
within the time prescribed by law. W. W.
Padgette, at Eurarlee, Georgia, is authorized by
us to receive and receipt for all money due said
estate in our names. This March 25th, 1880.
KENNEDY TAYLOR, Adm’r., and
ELIZA J. FRANKS, adm’n’x of
6 S. M, Franks, deceased.
THE FREE PRESS.
ST. JAMES HOTEL,
(Cartersvflle, Georgia.)
The undersigned has recently
taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It
has been newly furnished and shall be first-class
in all respects.
SAMPLE BOOM FOB COMMERCIAL TBAVILEBB.
Favorable terms to traveling theatrical com
panies. fjanlfl] L. C. HOSS, Propje or.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1880.
UNDERWOOD FOR GOVERNOR.
To the Editors of the Free Press :
Among the prominent sons of Georgia
mentioned in connection with the next
governorship, I see the name of Hon.
John W. 11. Underwood frequently spo
ken of. Judge Underwood is a gentle
man well known over the state for his
legal ability, honesty and uprightness,
and stands second to none foy guberna
torial honors. Georgia is sadly in need
of just such a man to direct her state af
fairs in these days of corruption Jin high
offices, and I sincerely trust the demo
cratic party of Georgia will consider his
claims upon them when they meet in
convention. Thousands of honest Geor
gians would hail his nomination with
pleasure. Independent Democrat.
THE CONSCIENCE-ELEMENT IN POL
ITICS.
The campaign begins early. We ob
serve in a county paper in Georgia the
following notice—omitting only the
names:
“We are authorized to aifnounee Hon.
,as a candidate for tlie legislature
(to represent county), at the next
election—Wednesday, October 1, 1880.”
The fellow citizens of this candidate
have nearly six months to consider his
fitness for the office he seeks. We do
not say his claims for tvvofeasons: 1. it
is a question of fitness; 2. he has no
claims, except on the grouhd of fitness.
It is time for voters to understand that
offices are not created for candidates but
for the service of the people. Offices are
not created to afford candidates a living,
or stepping stones to higher places.
They are not rewards for party service;
they are created to carry on government
for the best interest of the people to
whom the government belongs.
We do not know the llcul , whose
announcement of candidady appeared in
the paper before us. He may be the man
for the place—the best man. We hope
he is. We indulge no Utopsan dreams;
we ask no impossibles, or unreasonable
things of our law-makers. But some
qualities are absolutely indispensihle in a
law-maker, fit for his offiice. It goes
without saying—he * should know
something. Intelligence is not too much
to ask in those who aspire to the digni
and responsibilities of legislative assem
blies. Candidates for the ligislatnre
should know something of the wants of
the people and the principals of govern
ment. More skill in party management
is no substitute for wisdom, as mere par
tisan zeal is ny substitutefor patriotism.
Furthermore, it’ the Hon. is fitted
for legislature lie is, to put the case very
mildly, amoral man. He is not a drunk
ard and he will not use whiskey (or oth
er bribes) to carry His election. No
drunkard is a fit legislator.
There is no use in mincing words;
drunkenness is an absolute disqualifica
tion for officeholding. Drunkards, in
their sober moments, sometimes do wise
things; in their drunken moments they
generally do foolish things. .jßut the
least evil, perhaps, that comes’"f putting
drunkards in office is not in *he foolish
things they do, but in the .premium we,
w&o elect them, thereby put, their
vice. . (VV might have writS2v vic<*4-
drunkenness generally drags after it a
train of vices.) What good can we ex
pect to come of ous exhortation: “Son,
beware of drunkenness,” when he sees
us vote to put drunkards in office?
We have sinned long enough; we
must repent and reform; we must quit
voting for drunkards. As we seethe
matter, a Christian man cannot, with a
good conscience, knowingly vote for a
drunkard for any office, from justice of
the peace to president of the United
States.
Drunkards are not the only men unfit
to make law and to administer them.
Blasphemers, liars, rogues, Sabbath
breakers, gamblers, adulterers, liber
tines are not fit to be office-holders. No
genius, eloquence, learning, party-zeal,
or party-skill, can make them fit. Sen
ator Hill was right in his great “Davis
Hall” speech in the early reconstruc
tion days: “A man personally corrupt
cannot be politically pure.”
“Measures not men,” is the party cry;
we say, measures and men. Bad. men
make bad measures. A sound “creed”
and a corrupt ministry would do as well
in the church as a sound “platform” and
a corrupt office-holders do in the State.
This country has suffered more from
office holders than it has from unsound
political principles.
Some men talk as if there were a sort
of inuate antagonism between sound
measures and sound men ! As if there
were not good men enough to carry out
sound measures! As if personal good
ness were itself a sort of intellectual dis
qualification for office-holding! As if
good men have less sense than bad men !
There are two classes of men who
regret to see such writing in a religious
journal. bad men .who want office and
are afraid of the conscience-element in pol
itics; timid Christians who are “afraid
something will happen,” if the aforesaid
wicked politicians get mad. We hope
something will happen —that the last one
of them will be beaten by the vote of
men who “fear God and w ork righteous
ness.”
We know how Satan rages when
Christian men carry their consciences
into their politic. And we know how
the bad men rage when they And that
Christian begin to “vote as they pray.”
We have heard their thunder—the beat
ing of their Chinese gongs. We have
heard what they have to say about “the
union of church and state,” “dragging
the sacred robes of the Christian minis
try in the mire of the political arena”
(great is their jealousy for the ark of
God!) about “religious journals dabbling
in politics.”
Eighteen hundred years ago men no
worse said that John the Baptist “had a
devil,” and that the Christ was a “glut
ton and a winebibber.”
The Wesleyan does not advocate this
party or denounce that; this candidate or
that! But, with all its might, it says:
Let Christian men be true, first of all to
Christ, when they vote. They cannot
be true to Christ and knowingly make
corrupt men office-holders. The coun
try is not so poor and abject and debased
that it must put corrupt men in office. It
has enough good men to make and to ad
minister its laws.
If nominating conventions want Chris
tian votes for their candidstes let them
name men that Christian men can vote
for. If Christian men can ? t put good
men in office they can, at least, refuse to
become “partakers” of their sins.
All the special freight rates on the
New York Central and Hudson river
railroad terminated on the 30th of April,
and the officers of the road informed
shippers and jobbers that they should
not renew them. This is owing to the
Hepburn anti-discrimination bill now
pending in the New York legislature.
THE DEFICIENCY BILL.
Mr. Hayes Sends it Back to the House
t Without His Signature.
W ashixgtox, May 4.—The president
to-day signed the army appropriation
bill and returned the deficiency bill to
the house with the follow ing veto mes
sage :
To the house of the representatives:
After mature consideration of the bill
entitled, “An act making appropriation
to supply certain deficiencies in the ap
propriations for the service of the gov
ernment for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1880, and for other purposes,” I re
turn it to the house of representatives, in
which it originated, with my objections
to its passage. The bill appropriates
about $8,000,000, of which over $600,000
is for the payment of fees of United
States marshals and of general and spec
ial deputy-marshals earned during the
current fiscal year and their incidental
expenses. The appropriations made in
the bill are needed to carry on the opera
tions of the government and to fulfill its
obligations for the payment of money
long since due to officers for services and
expenses essential to the execution of
their duties under the law's of the United
States. The necessity for these appro
priations is so urgent, and they have
been already so long delayed, that if the
bill before me contained no general leg
islation unconnected with these appro
priations, it would receive my prompt
approval. It contains, however, provis
ion which materially charge, and by im
plication repeal important parts of the
laws for the regulation of the United
States elections. These laws have, for
several years past, been subject of vehe
ment political controversy, and have
been denounced as unnecessary, oppres
sive and unconstitutional. On the other
hand, it has been maintained equal zeal
and earnestness that election laws are
indispensible to fair and lawful elections,
and are clearly warranted by the consti
tution. Under these circumstances, to
attempt in, appropriation bills modifica
tion or repeal of these law's is to annex a
condition to the passage of needed and
proper appropriations, which tends to de
prive the excutive of that equal and in
dependent exercise of his discretion and
judgment which the constitution con
templates. The object to the bill, there
fore, to which I respectively ask your at
tention, is that it gives marked and deli
berate sanction, attended by no circum
stances of pushing necessity to the ques
tionable and, as I am clearly of opinion,
dangerous practice of tacking upon ap
propriation bills general and permanent
legislation. The practice opens wide the
door to hasty, inconsiderate and, sinister
legislation. It invites attacks upon in
dependence and the constitutionalpporerw r er
of the executive by providing an easy
and effective way of constraining execu
tive discretion. Although of late this
practice has been resorted to by all polit
ical parties w hen clothed with power, it
did not prevail until forty years after the
adoption of the constitution, and it is
confidently believed that it is condemned
by the enlighteningj udgmentof the coun
try. The states which have adopted new
constitutions during the last quarter of a
century have generally provided reme
dies for this evil. Many of them have
enacted .that no law shall contain more
than one subject, which shall be plainly
expressed in its title, The constitutions
of mote than half of the states contain
substantially this provision or some other
of like intent and meaning. “The public
welfare w'ill be promoted in many ways
by a return to the early practice of the
government and to the true rule of legis
lation which is that every measure
should stand upon its own merits. I am
firmly convicted that appropriation bills
ought not to contain any legislation not
relevant to the application or expendi
ture of money thereby appropriated, and
that by a strict adherance to this princi
pal important and much needed reform
will be accomplished. Placing my ob
jection to the bill on this feature of its
frame, I forbear any comment upon the
important general and permanent legis
lation which it contains as matter for
specific and independent consideration.
(Signed,) Rutherford B. Hayes.
Executive Mansion.
DOWN IN DIXIE.
Nashville is fining the gamblers.
The Alabama river is steadily falling.
Tuscumbia, Alabama, is building a cot
ton factory.
The Texas cattle drive this year will
reach fully 300,000 head.
Bull-frogs from Reelfort, Tenn., are
being shipped north.
Average weight of thirteen Fulton,
Ky., belles is 107>2 pounds.
Tennessee state board of health meets
in Nashville May 22.
Green corn in the markers in Tampa,
Florida, as early as April 8.
Southwestern Kentucky medical asso
ciation meets at Paduca, May 12.
Cock fighting on the Sabbath is be
coming fashionable in Pensacola.
Lexington, Ky., races commence the
Bth and the Louisville races on the 18th.
A Robertson, Ky., cow has been giv
ing milk countiuuously for seventeen
years.
Wheat crop from Dalton to Loudon,
never looked more than at
present.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
system is now the fourth in point in mi
leage on the continent.
The Methodist churches in Texas re
ports 80,458 members, 759 local preach
ers, 537 churches and 385 pastors.
Since January 1 over 400,000 bushels
of corn have been shipped direct from
Richmond, Va., to Europe.
On Monday W. T. Blackwell & Cos.,
sold in Chicago, one million pounds of
smoking tobacco for SIOO,OOO cash.
Richmond, Ky., Register knows of a
mare eleven years of age that has given
biyth to nine mule colts.
Little folks in Grenada, Mississippi, are
having a lively time with mumps, mea
sles and w hooping cough.
The million acres of university lands
in Texas have been surveyed and the
field notes accepted by the land office.
The public schools of Paducah, Ky.,
use a history of the United States writ
ten by a local teacher, and printed at
home.
New' Orleans shipped to Italy during
the past year one million eight hundred
thousand gallons cotton seed oil, and to
France six hundred thousand.
The wholesale merchants of Nashville
have raised a fund for the purchase of
railroad tickets, for distribution among
nearly one thousand of their patrons—
the country merchants in Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama.
It is announced that Beast Rutler has
informed Senator Hereford that if Justice
Field is the democratic candidate for pres
ident he will go for him and carry Mass
achusetts for him in November.
SAM HOYLE'S LAST LETTER.
We have seldom read any tiling th*t
gives a stranger idea of human agony
thau the letter published below, written
by S. R. Hoyle, the defaulting Fulton
county tax collector, to his wife, before
committing suicide in California some
two or three weeks ago. If all men, be
fore entering on the paths of “crooked
ness” in office could read this letter of
Mr. Hoyle to his wife, they would see in
the abyss of shame and guilt awaiting
them, terrors enough to drive them from
wrong doing. Mr. Hoyle was a brave,
proud man, and when too late to remedy
the w rongs that he committed he fled the
state and rather than be brought back as
a criminal he took his ow n life. But be
fore doing this he w rites a letter to his
wife, full of everything suggestive of in
tense love, shame and pride. No money
can compensate a man toi such an hour
of agony. We cut the letter from the
Constitution:
Col. Eastman —My Friend : I want
you to take charge of , an[d] allow'
Collier, under no circumstances, to han
dle my remains or personal effects; have
my trunk with all my things shipped ex
pressed to Mrs. S. R. Hoyle, Shorter’s
station, Ala. After taking out reasona
ble fees send remainder of money to my
wife. I thank you and your associates
for zeal and energy in my behalf.
My Wife: The courts have decided
against me. Collier and Starnes have
acted with great malice towards me.
Collier has told several persons that he
intended to iron me so heavily that I
couldn’t get up when down. Of course
you all know me too well to think that I
could submit to this humiliation w'hen I
have it in my power to prevent it. I had
rather go under with the shock than die
piece-meal on the rack.
O! my wife, blame me not. It is for
the best for all of us. My God, my God,
my soul stands still. The very pulsations
of my heart cease as I approach this sub
ject. For God’s sake don’t call it cow
ardice, for it is not. If I did not know
that my death, under all circumstances,
would be to the interest of my wife and
children, I could live and undergo all the
tortures of man and devil. But Lida,
think of my precious little ones growing
up and the finger of scorn to point them
out as the son and daughterof a convict!
Never, never! I am perfectly calm and
determined. I have no fear of death.
May the Great Eternal Ruler protect my
precious wife and little ones. Oh, heav
ens, what would I give to have you w ith
me in this awful hour, but I must not al
low my thoughts to dwell; it makes a
coward of me. My last words on this
earth shall be, “My wife.” Oh, my no
ble-, brave, loving wife. God. God, how
can I leave you? My heart almost fails
me. But hush, oh breaking heart, keep
still. Jodie Alverine and my poor old
mother, what shall I say? Tell ma her
other sons must comfbrt her old age, and
Imogene, Frank, Mr. Ilowell and all,
good-bye.
In a few minutes I go to the land where
all is peace and rest. God have mercy
on my soul.
Mr. Thompson and sons and Rowland,
I thank you for your kindness. Adieu.
S. R. Hoyle.
One of Mr. Hoyle’s near relatives yes
terday received a letter from Jailer
Thompson enclosing some of Mr. Hoyle’s
hair which the jailer’s daughter had ta
ken from his head to be sent to his be
reaved kinspeople. The thoughtful act
was much appreciated.
ABOUT THE CENSUS.
Which is of Personal and Public Interest.
From section 17 of the act to provide
for the taking of the tenth census we
make the following extract of interest to
the public:
“Schedule one shall contain inquiries
as to the relation of each person enumer
ated to the head of the family, whether
wife, son, daughter, servant, boarder or
other; as to the civil conditions of each
person enumerated, or to all foreign
born w hether alien or naturalized person,
and as .to the physical and mental healths
of each person enumerated, whether ac
tive or disabled, maimed, crippled, bed
ridden, deaf, dumb, blind, insane or
idiotic, and whether employed or unem
ployed, during what portion of the year.
“Schedule number three shall contain
inquiries respecting the kind and amount
of power employed in the establishment
of productive industry, and the kind and
number of machines in use, together
with the maximum capacity of such
establishment, where superintendent
of census shall deem such inquiry
appropriate, and the said super
intendent may, when he shall regard it
expedient, prepare special blank forms
for separate industries.
Schedule number four, shall contain
inquiries relating to the public indebted
ness of cities, counties, incorporated vil
lages, and towns, and school districts,
and of the ownership of the public debt
of the United States, by whom owned
and the respective amounts and such ad
ditional inquiries respecting the same as
well as respecting the papers and crimi
nals as the superintendent of census
shall deem necessary to secure full infor
mation respecting tiie numbers and con
dition of these classes.”
Section 14th says: “That each and ev
ery person more than 20 years of age be
longing to any family residing in any
enumeration district, and in case of the
absence of the heads and other members
oi any such family, then any agent of
such family, shall be, and each of them
hereby is required if thereto requested
by the superintendent, supervisor or enu
merator, to render a true account to the
best of his or her knowledge of everv
person belonging to such family in the
various particulars required by law; and
whoever shall wilfully fail or refuse
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall forfeit and
pay a sum not exceeding ofte hundred
dollars. And every president, treasurer,
secretary, general agent or managing di
rector of every corporation from which
answers to any of the schedules provided
for by this act are herein required, who
shall if thereto requested by the superin
tendent, supervisor or enumerator, will
fully neglect or refuse to give true and
complete answers to any inquiries au
thorized by this act, such officer or agent
shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than
five hundred dollars, nor more than ten
thousand dollars, to be recovered in an
action of debt in any court of competent
jurisdiction in the name and to the use of
the United States, and in addition thereto
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
on conviction thereof, shall be imprison
ed for a term not exceeding one year.”
Corn crop about Dawson Is very prom
ising and an unusual large acreage has
been planted. Cotton is being chopped
out, and most of the farmers have a good
stand.
NUMBER 44.
GOLD VEINS.
Gainesville, April 29.— r fhere is a
mistaken notion with regard to the nature
and formation of gold veins; and you
will do an essential service to the coun
try, and to Georgia particularly, if you
will give your aid in promulgating the
truth to the masses, who are ignorant of
the laws of science. We will premise by
stating that the operation of the laws of
God never change; and that a “true or
volcanic vein” Fs every where the same;
that its metallic properties depend upon
whatever metal chanced to be forced up
by the matrix to the surface from the
fluid mass of matter, beneath the crust of
the earth, which is about fifty miles thick.
Whenever a grand cataclysm obtains this
crust is disrupted; and a chain of moun
tains is formed, and many fissures are
formed, giving numerous metalifferous
veins of whatever happens to be at that
point, hi a fluid state —sometimes iron,
sometimes gold, silver, zinc, copper or
any other substance. These veins never
exhaust, as the crust of the earth is at
least fifty miles thick; the metals of what
ever kind will continue to that depth.
The Comstock lode has been worked
3,500 feet deep and the heart Increases
about one degree in every fifty-six feet;
consequently, at the present level, no one
can work longer than one hour.
In Georgia, we have but five true veins
which have produced immensely rich de
posits of massive gold. But not one has
been developed. No search has been
made for the veins which, if worked,
would yield thousands of dollars per day
to each hand. The Potosi mine in South
America yielded over $2,000,000 annually
for many years, and we have at least four
equally as rich. The Lumsden mine, at
Nacoochee, is of this character, and has
produced hundreds of thousands of dol
lars from the placers, but when traced to
the cause, will yield as much every
month. The most of the veins in Geor
gia, and other parts of the world are al
together different from true or fissure
veins. They were formed by chemical
precipitation, from solution in a tempera
ture above boiling water and formed
strata in the primary sea bed, which were
after millions of years upheaved by vol
canic force, and now constitute what we
call “seggregated veins,” which trend
with the Appalachian range of moun
tains in a southwest and northeast direc
tion in the states of Georgia, Alabama,
North and South Carolina, and onwards
for a thousand miles. The radical differ
ence simply is that the gold, in a true
vein, is always massive, ranging from a
few pennyweights to ten and twenty
pounds, and in California, the largest
mass weighed 100 pounds. One, equally
large, from Australia, now in England,
is from a volcanic vein, in all of which,
the gold is forced up from the internal
great deep in a fluid state with the ma
trix, while the seggregated veins of strata
are lormed by the precipitation of gold
from solution by chemical affinity; and is
never massive, and may be rich or not,
just in proportion to the quantity in so
lution in the menstrum; and may con
tinue for miles deep or give out quickly,
just in accord with the disrupted section.
In North Carolina, m Cabarras county,
at the Reid mine, was found the first
gold in the United States. The mass was
picked up by a boy who shot at, and
missed, a fish ; and his arrow was broken
against a yellow mass which he carried
home, and his mother used for years to
prop the door open. It weighed thirty
seven pounds troy. We knew of two
other mines w hich have been abandoned
for 40 years, no doubt, equally rich.
M. F. Stephenson.
ED COX.
Rumors Current as to Where he will
be Sent.
The decision in the Ed Cox case, as
published Wednesday, w'hile not unex
pected, was still freely discussed by the
public. Its correctness was not doubted,
but more of symyathy was expressed for
the unfortunate man than we have heard
heretofore. The question uppermost in
the minds of most people who read the
verdict, was : “Where will he go?”
Now that Cox must go to the peniten
tiary, some one of the camps must be des
ignated as his future residence. It has
been rumored some time that he is not a
desirable charge, and that several of the
lessees have stated that they do not want
him. Governor Brow r n is reported as
averse to receiving him, upon the ground
that he is not such an “able-bodied” man
as the law says he shall have. Although
a life man and primarily assignable to
Governor Brown the latter holds that he
fails in other conditions. We understand
that the physician of the penitentiary has
examined Cox and reported his physical
condition to the governo!. M hat that
report contains has not been disclosed.
Gov. Brown had an examination of Cox
made bv four physicians of the city,
headed ‘by Dr. 11. V. M. Milier, as we
learn, and they, too, have made a report
which Governor Brown has filed with
the governor of the state. We are una
ble to state its contents, but learn that it
is a strong presentation of defects in
Cox’s physical condition, lucidly and
strongly stated in a written report drawn
by Dr. Miller.
It was reported as certain yesterday
that Cox would not be sent to the coal
mines, but would be assigned to one of
the lessees engaged in farming operations
in south Georgia. It is probable that the
report is correct, and that Cox will be
made easy upon one of the plantations
worked by either Col. Lockett or Mr.
Walters in South Georgia. Yet another
rumor assigned him to W. D. Grant, of
this city.
Cox is said to have become reconciled
to the decrees of the courts so far as to
have given over his intention to only
come out of Fulton county jail “leet
.fpremost.” He is closely watched to
prevent any attempt at self-destruction,
if, indeed, he ever seriously contemplated
such an act. He is very much opposed
to the idea of being shackled and is re
ported as ready to pledge his honor that
if spared that humiliation he will per
form truly and creditably all things re
quired of him and make no attempt to
abuse the clemency by an effort to es
cape. He says that as he must go to the
penitentiary that he will go like a man
and do his duty like one.
He does not expect any executive clem
ency from the present administration and
his friends say he desires none at its
hands. If pardoned, he wants it from
other hands and with the sanction of his
fellow-citizens of old, who know hint and
believe in his honesty in all things.
He is said to often speak of Alston in
the kindest terms and as a friend whom
nothing but a stern necessity would haye
induced him to harm. His faithful wife
and loving children have cheered him
greatly in his confinement, and it is a
part of the arrangement to be made for
him that they will be located near him
and see him often. — Constitution.
An unusual amount of potatoes plant
ed in Schley county. Oats will fall short
of an average Ciop. Cotton seed in de
mand at from 20 to 50 cents per bushel.
RATES OF ADVERTISING,
Advertisement* will be inserted it the rates of
One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and
Fifty Cents for each additional insertion.
CONTRACT RATES.
Space. 1 mo. S mos. tt mos. 1 year.
One inch, *2 50 *5 00 *7 50 *lO 00
Tw o inches, 375 760 12 50 18 00
Three inches, *OO 10 00 17 50 25 00
Four inches, 625 12 50 if 50 82 00
Fourth column 7 50 15 00
Half column, 15 00 25 00 40 00 mOO
One column, 20 00 r 40 00 80 00 400 00
