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TJEFIE] POST.
"WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 34, 1870,
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
WHAT POMCEMEN CANNOT
IK).
Unless They Have a Right To
Make an Am«t and Uhc Violence
They are TrcHjuiusers.
Albany Law.Journnl, Sept. 18.
Alter Colquitt.
The eternal harping of certain
newspapers about' Gov. Colquitt’s
spotless Christianity and Sunday
school proclivities has failed to have
ItiO desired effect, and n groat many
pcoplo who think: for themselves arc
of opinion that if Gov. Colquitt were
all ho ought to be, official corruption
could not have run not so long under
his administration. In the d'seussion
of Nclnvs ‘management of tho con
victs, on last Friday, Mr. Phillips,
of Cobb, said lie did not believe that
John Nelms had a right to toko fees
while in office, but ho hud no desire
to precipitate this matter, and lie
wished to hear from the gentlemen
who signed report No. 2, which ex
onerates Mr. Nelms. Ho said that
it appeared Unit every one of the
official nets of John W. Nelms had
boon done by tho knowledge, consent
and approval of Alfred II. Colquitt,
governor of Georgia. Said ho: “I
do not boliovo in immolating the
agent and allowing the principal to
go free.”
If John W. Nelms ought to bo
turned out of office, I put it to you
ns a fair quoBtion if Alfred II. Col
quitt. ought not to he put, out ol
cilice. They are inseparable. Nelms
is a part of the executive department.
Jf thoro is any crime hero I ask you
if tho governor is not “particeps
criminis.” Let us deal with John
W. Nelms only us the subordinate of
the oxccutivo of tho State. What
ho 1ms d.ono has been dduo by tho
approval of tho governor.
Mr, llumbor said he thought Mr.
Phillips was tho only man who had
.struck tho key note of tho question.
Ho bolioved tho govornor was guilty
jf Nolms was, and ho would novor
consent to soo a lonoly man Btruok
down and a high official sholtorod.
Every act of Nolnm was known and
approved by I,he governor, lie fa
vorod a thorough investigation of tho
whole matttor in full view of all tho
facts.
Mr. llumbor thou offered tho fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved. That this house pro
mounoos its uuqualiftod censure on
the notion of John W. Nelms, prin
cipal kcopor of tho Georgia poniton-
tiury, in making a private oontraot
with tho lessees of tho convicts of
said penitentiary to deliver said con
victs to thorn at a certain price -per.
capita and in enforcing tho same
contrary to law; but it being shown
to tho house by tho ovidcnco in this
case that his oxeollonoy, tho govorn
or, having boon put in possession of
all tho facts (by Judge John L. Hop
kins), jus to tho demands of said
.principal kcopor to huvo paid to him
by certain lossoos a given amoimt of
money, against wluoh they ontorod
their solemn protest, and as ho re
fused to interfere, therefore ho indi
rectly, if not directly, approved said
action and is responsible for this
wrung and unlawful procedure of
#ud officer.
This oroatod somo soneation.
On motion of Mr. DuBoso tho
house adjourned in a noivons stato
until 0 o’clock to-morrow.
Goldsmith Was found guilty by tho
somite under 11 articles of impeooh-
ment and not guilty undov 6. It re
quires a two-thmls vote to convict
Tho day has come when Goorgia
blushes f)or its honorta sake, and
honest men demand that investiga
tion ocaso not till tho wholo truth is
found, and Georgia’s fair name is
puritiod from the contact of corrupt
officials. —A ttgmta News,
Since Goldsmith 1ms been punish
ed for the part betook in the wild
land steal several of the State papers
have come out in favor of tho legis
lature’s pushing their investigations
into the camp *'f dm corrupt, ring of
land thieves who nmdo a tool of
Goldsmith. It should bo done.
The Atlanta Constitution is leg
ging for our State officials, ■ That
able paper is determined that it shall
mu be guilty of ingratitude whatever
other charges may bo laid at its door.
Tho'New York demoenuty is in
quite a muddle at present with two
candidates for governor in tho Held.
Rui it. is to be hoped that Uncle
Sammy has ordered everything for
the best
There is a subject to which atten
tion is constantly called by convic
tions and sentences at the assizes and
other criminal.courts, and which was
illustrated by a judicial decision in the
Queen’s Bench, and appears to re
quire greater consideration than it
has hitherto received; we mean tho
offense of assaulting or obstructing
the police in tho execution of their
duty. Tho law while providing pc
culiarly severe penalties for tho of-
fonso of assaulting or obstructing
them in tho execution of .their duty,
imposes in the very definition of the
offense, a condition that they, at tho
time of tho assault or obstruction,
are engaged “in tho execution of
their duty.” This, it is obvious,
requires Careful consideration; yet it
is too often very carelessly passed
over in many classes of cases in wh ich
it appears clear that the first act of
force, or violence emanated from the
policeman, and ho has attempted to
take tho man, or push him, or tho
like. It is in all such cases to be
considered whother tho policeman,
whothor by common law or by statute,
had any powor to touch "tho party,
oithor by pushing him or toking him
into custody. For, if uot, then tho
man would lmvo a right to resist him
and defend himself from assault, and
if death ensued in tho struggle tho
man. if lie killed tho policeman,
would not bo guilty of murder, and
perhaps not oven of manslaughter,
and if the policeman killed the man
ho would bo guilty of murder. If a
policeman, without a Warrant, on
cleavers to arrest a man for a more
misdemeanor not committed in his
prosonco tho man may resist oven to
death, and, unless ho uses cruelly
and unnecessarily a doadly weapon
or doadly violonoo, even if ho kill the
policeman ho will not bo guilty of
mnrdor, and may bo legally justifia
ble. A constable has no right to ar
rest a disorderly person unless ho is
committing or on the point of com
mitting a breach, of tho peace; and if
ho attompt it ho may bo resisted
And if tho constablo is killed in ro
stating him it is not .oven man
slaughter, unless thoro is somo ox
ooss. Thus it is clour that whore tho
policeman attempts to arrest, unless
he is legally justified in arresting, re
sistuuce to him to any extent ueees
sary will bo lawful and justifiable
and so cannot form tho subject of
criminal clmrgo. On tho sumo prin
oiple.il is manifest that if the polico
man, having no power to arrest, of
for any force or violonco to tho por
son, as hv pushing, this will justify
resistance, or so far exouso it that
he will not bo justified in arresting
tho party for tho resistance; and if
ho attompt to arrest, tho man may
restat uj^u'ohonsion, and the polico
man if assaulted will not bo assaultod
in tho “execution of his duty,” but
on tho contrary will bo guilty of ille
gal violonco while boing lawfully re
sisted. Tho polico huvo a nation for
instance, that if any ono is drunk
or is making a little noiso, tho per
son may at-once bo arrested and
dragged to prison; ami daily porsons
are thus treated, and if thoy resist
are charged with assaulting tho jk>
lioo in tho oxocution ol their duty
and probably convicted summarily
or on a trial and visited with sovoro
punishment.
Unless thoro is an actual breach
of the peace or an affray, there
nothing of which tho common law
takes cqgnixaueo—nothing whioh
justifies tho coustoblo's interference
and if ho iutorfores and the parties
do not desist and ho then threaten
force thoy may threaten resistance
and if ho uses force they may resist,
and if he suffers any violonco (unless
excessive) it is his own fault, and if
he inflicts violonco ho himself is civil
ly or criminally answerable, and
he causos homicide lvo is guilty
murder, while if tho person he lias
assaulted causos death (uuiutoution
ally and with no wiokod excess) ho is
The Sentence.
The following is the sentence pos
ed upon GoTdsmitlYby Chief Justice
Warner: . .'
The House of representatives and
all the people of Georgia vs. Wash
ington L. Goldsmith, comptroller-
general. Impeachment.
Whereas, it appears from the rec
ord of the trial had in the above
stated case now before the court,
that the defendant was guilty of the
charges contained in the first, third,
fourth, fifth, tenth, thirteenth, four
teenth and seventeenth articles of
mpcnchmcnt preferred against him
by the house of representatives, and
was not found guilty of the charges
contained in the other articles;
whereupon it is considered, ordered
nud adjudged by tho high court of
impeachment of the state of Georgia,
now here, that the defendant, the
said W. L. Goldsmith, comptroller-
general of the said state of Georgia,
and he is ta hereby removed from tho
said office of comptroller-general, and
that the same be and is hereby de
clared to be vacant, and that the
said W. L. Goldsmith be and is
hereby declared to be disqualified to
hold and enjoy any office of honor,
trust or profit within the stute of
Georgia within his natural life.
18th September, 1870.
IIlHAM WARNER,
Chief Justice Supreme Conrt of Ga.
Reufroo made an abortive effort to
resign in order to escape impeach
ment.
Jay Gould 1ms added another $5,-
000 to the relief of distressed Mem
phis.
John D. Long has been nominated
by tho republicans of Massachusetts
for governor.
Tho emperor of Germany has ap
proved the project of a world’s fair
at Berlin iq 1855.
Mrs. Lincoln says tlirt Charles
Sumner made matrimonial proposals
to her not long after the death of her
husband.
Many people who invoko the aid of
Divine Providence want Providence
to do the job up witouteost to thom-
solves.—Rural World.
Not many governors can make
thomsclvos useful at camp-mectings
by preaching as does Gov. Colquitt
of Georgia.—Chicago Tribune.
Railway acoidonts, strictly so call
od, do not appear to have caused thfi
death of a single passenger on the
lines of tho unitod kingdom during
the six months onding with Juno
lust.
Tho Portland (Maine) ArgusDnon
tiona as a rumor that Senator Blaiue
spout 120,000 of his private fortune
to carry that stato for tho republicans
last Monday. The same paner a
sorts that the republican cuinfKi^
in Muino cost that party 8250,000.
Bon Butler and Wendell Philli
are candidates for govornor and lieu
tonunt-govornor of Massachusetts
and it is bolioved ho will beat the
regular republican nominoo, Long.
Tho democratic nominee will hardly
bo known in tho race.
It is estimated that the impeach
meat of Comptroller-Gonoral Gold
smith will cost from seventy-five
thousand to ono hundred thousand
dollars.
Wo are inolined to think that the
extra session of tho Legislature for
1870, will go down in history as the
record of men who. knowing duty
dared to do it. It may have made a
few mistakes, but tho people, can
call it to memory in the future as
worthy of tho expression: “Well
done good and faithful servants.”—
Central Georgia Weekly.
A country chap had his girl in
town last Sunday, and his city cousins
was showing them the sights. They
passed a cortain institution, and tho
girl asked, “What’s that?” “The
Old Man’s Home,” replied tho. cou
sin, and the way that country chap
made for tho cm* door was an excellent
example of tho force of habit.—
Philu. Sunday Item.
not guilty of murder or not oven of
manslaughter, ant it .. Molldav nost .»
homicide. • i ■
A little four-year-old girl attended
church in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
recently, and upon returning home
her mother asked her if she remem
bered tho text. “Oh, yes,” said sho,
“it was this: The Ladies’ Sewing
Society will meet at Mrs. So and-ao’s
Howard Paul lias seen a letter
French nobleman, ask-
if Wm. H. Vanderbilt has any
^liters, and if A. T, Stewart left
written bv a
fS$F
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Tho i acuity of advocates—Speech
When a person well replenishes a
fire how doos it feel?—Grateful (!)
A horse (marine)—The
Passage ol' the Bill to Furnish
Limbs to Maimed Confederates.
The following bill has been intro
duced by Hon. II. G. Wright, of
Richmond, has passed the senate,
and will become a law on signature
of the governor:
A bill to be entitled an act to carry
into effect the last clause of para
graph one, section one, article sev
en of the constitution of 1877.
Section 1. 15c it enacted by the
general assembly of tho state of Geor
gia, That any person now a resident
of this stato who enlisted in
the military service of tho con
federate states or of this state,
though non-resident at the time of
such enlistment, but has since. be
come and now is, a resident of this
state, who, while engaged in said
military service, lost a limb or limbs,
may furnish the governor of this
state proof that, such applicant lias,
supplied himself with such artificial
limb or limbs, tlml the governor on
reception of such proof, is hereby
authorized to draw his warrant on
tho treasurer of the state in favor of
such applicant, for either amount
hereafter mentioned, to wit: For a
leg oxtending above the knee, $100;
for a log not extending above the
luico, $75; for an arm" not extending
above the elbow, $40, provided said
amounts of monoy may bo allowed
any one entitled to the benefits of
t his act, who may prefer to supply
himself with said artificial limb.
Section 2. Be it further enacted
by said authority that such applica
tion shall contain certain proof of
such applicants being entitled to the
benefits of this act, and shall futiter
state whether arm or leg has been
supplied; if an arm, whether extend
ing above tfie elbow, or not; if log,
whether extending above the knee,
or not, and the governor shall decide
the sufficiency of the proof submit-
Soctioui 3. Be it further enacted,
That no applicant shall receive the
sum allowed under the not, oftner
than onco in five years.
Section 4. Repeals conflicting
laws.
Of Mrs. Dixon and her grand
children tho Montezuma Weekly
has this to say: “Sho is very old
nearly one hundred. She has but
one boy. Ho was a married man
He was a soldier ‘ under Lee. His
wife died while ho was in tho army
leaving two children, a boy and ;
girl, to bo cared for by their aged
grandmother. Their fathei.* lost his
life iff tlio defenso of the south
Ilia bones are in Virginia. His
children penniless. The grand
mother has no incomo whatever,
The children are growing up in ig
norance and destitution. They live
within three miles of this place,
thoir father was a privato. Will
somo one please start a contribution
for thoir relief. They will be made
happy and comfortable with a much
smaller sum than it takes to provide
for Alio little ones of the dead gener
al. God knows that we speak the
sentiments of our hearts when wo
utter the wish that' General llood’i
children may be amply provided for
by the. people of the south, and wo
shall contribute to tho extent of our
ability to the the uoble charity; but
when wo glance over tho list of or
plains of confederate privato soldiers
in our country who aro reduced to
penury and want, wo cannot with
hold tho exclamation: Would to
God that tho fathers of these chil
dren had all attained the runs of
general before thoy poured out their
blood in defense of our sunny south.!
A Strange Drowning Case.
In Somerset county, Md., last
week, a fine pair of oxen, belonging
ing to E. B. Cook, and drawing a
hogshead of water, ran into a shallow
ditch, m which tho water was not
more than a foot deep, to get
drink. When thoy put their hoads
down to drink the hogshead rolled
down to tho front of tho cart, and
with such force as to bear the muz
zles of tho oxen down into tho water
and drive tho end of the tongue for
ward and into the ditch bank in
front, far enough to hold them in
that positiou. Before they could be
extricated from the cart thoy had
strangled to doath in the water.
FOB CLOTHUsTG- axLcl HATS
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For 22 Years tlic Leading Clothing House of Middle Georgia!
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Russia is moving forward rapidly.
It now has the largest national debt
if wo include therein tho paper mouey
in circulation—of any country in the
world, owing no less an amount
than $4,383,572,502, almost all of
which sums boars interest. Five-
sixths of this debt is lfeld abroad;
the far greater portion of it, strange
to say, in France, and the remainder
in Eugland and Holland.
The house has resolved to impeach
Reufroe,
W. W. COLLINS,
Manufacturer of and Dealer in
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Laurens Court of Ordinary.
Fou County Purposes, ,
September 13, 1879.
Upon the recommondatiou*of the Grand
Jury, April adjourned Term of Laurens
Superior Court, 1879, it is ordered that the
tax collector levy and collect the following
amounts for county purposes for the yeai
1879:
80 per cent, on tlio State tax, to pay jury
scrip now due; 5 per cent, to pay bailiff
scrip now due; 40 per cent, to pay juries
for October term, 1879, and April term,
1880; 6 per cent, to pay bailiffs for Octo
ber term, 1879, and April term, 1880 ; 40
per cent, for building bridges and repairing
Court-house; 20 per cent, for keeping
ferries; 25 per cent, for support of pau
pers; 4 4-7 per cent, to pay for iron safe for
Treasurer, now due; 6 per cent, to pay jail
fees; 10 per cent, to pay non-resident
witnesses, feeding juries, stationery and
incidental court expenses; 2 per cent, to
pay coroner’s fees; 40 per cent, to pay
salary of Ordinary and Treasurer, extra
compensation to county officers, tax re
ceiver and tax collector’s commissions,
insolvent tax and incidental county expen
ses, etc;, making in the aggregate 80 cents
on the one hundred dollars worth of taxable
property.—Same as last year, 1878. A
true extract from the minutes.
John T. Duncan,
80d Ordinary.
Application for Administration
Laurens Court of Ordinary,
September Term, 1879.
Whereas, Z T Thomas 1ms filed his fippli
cation for letters of administration on the
estate of John Thomas,- deceased,
These aro therefore to cite and admonish
all and singular, the kindred and creditors
of said deceased, to show cause, if any they
have, why letters of administration should
not be granted the applicant on the first
Monday in October next.
Given under my official signature this
September 1st. 1879. Jno. T Duncan,
scpl-4t Ordinary.
Removal! Removal
REMOVAL!!
In order to display to better" advantage
my extensive stock of
Pictnre Frames, Pictures, Brack
ets, etc., etc.,
I will, on or about the FIRST OF OCTO
BER, remove frog} my present place of
business—No. 9 Cotton Avenue—to the
elegant and commodious store,
No. 46 Second St.,
(Opposite Waxelbaum & Co.)
The advantages that this change will
offer will permit me to enlarge School
Books and Music Departments of my
business, and enable me to offer extra in
ducements in these branches.
I would respectfully invite your attention
to my stock of School Books, Picture and
miscellaneous Books, Sunday School Music
Books, among which I would call attention
to the
Golden Shore, Gem,
Emerald, Amaranth,
Pure Gold, New Life,
New Starry Crown,
Gospel Hymns,
Sacred Songs,
Sacred Harp,
Hymn & Tune Books,
Catechisms, Sunday School Cards etc.
The CHEAPEST Bibles
IN THE STATE!
All books at N. Y. prices. Bear in
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mind that I make a specialty of manufac-
. Application for Dismission.
Laurens Court of Ordinary,
September Term, 1879,
Whereas, Dennis Eea, Administrator
on the estate of Deliliak Goff, has filed, his
Application for Letters of Dismission from
said administration.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons concerned to show cause, if any
they have, why letters of Dismission should
not he granted the applicant on the first
Monday in December uext.
September 1st, 1879.
’ sepl-Sm
John T Duncan,
Ordinary
turing Picture Frames, and have got prices
down to a fine point, which can’t be beat
by any house south of Baltimore. Call
and see me and be convinced.
E. D. ERVINE.
N. B.—A handsome line of Fancy Writ
ing Paper in boxes frorii 10c to 60c.—Sent
to any address on receipt of price.
ZP-A/3T TTJ?!
I am now ready to receive cotton in pay
for Soluble Sea Island Guano. Parties
would do well to bear in mind that after
the 1st October they will lose the 13c cot
ton option Cotton must class Middling,
which will take first picking, I will be in
town every Saturday to receive cotton; if
Given "under*my Official signature tblsl* — * L ‘ ^
wbo will receipt them with their note.
JOEL E. DEAN.
Sept, IS, 1879,