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D. B. FREEMAN. Editor and Proprietor.
Satuday. Novemberiy, 1877
A telephone line is now in successful
ooeration between the towns of Darien
and Brunswick, Ga.
The Wajß and Means Committee of
Congress have authorized their chair
man to report a bill providing for final
adjournment on the 22d
| |Rev.W.P.lJarrison who has for a loDg
time been pastor of the first Methodist
ohurch at Atlanta, has recently been
elected to the chaplaincy of the U. S.
House of Representative?.
The temperance people of New York
have adopted a novel plan of operations.
An illumiuated sign, carried by a dil
apidated looking man representing a
drunkard in the worst l; ages of de auch
A id labeled Farewell to Rum and Ruin ’
can now be seen moving up and down
Broadway.
Among the bills lately introduced in
iho Ilonse is one to provide for a per
petual loan of nine hundred million dol
lars at the rate of four per cent., the
amount received lrorn the sale of this
loan to he applied to the calling in and
of the six and five per cent,
bonds now in the hands of foreign
holders.
A movement is on foot, enginered by
Judge Mackey, of South Carolina,to se.
cure the dismissal by the Government
of the pending prosecution for alleged
violations of the Internal Revenue laws
in South Carolina. There are eighteen
hundred of these indictments, the chief
object of which was to swell the fees and
political influences of a truly l®y*,l Dis
trict Attorney.
To the Voters of the Fori y-Third
Senatorial District.
Through the papers pubJished in the
District, I have already announced my
self a candidate foCa seat in the first Sen
ate to assemble under the new Constitu
tion. The justice of the claim of Gor
don county,that one of her citizens serve
the district for the nest term, seems to
be authorized by theother two
at least, it will not be contested,so far as
lam advised. I was reared in Chero
kee Georgia, I shared the privations of
camp and the dangers of battle with her
young men for four years ; and during
my maturer life, I have labored w.vh
her people to relieve our State from po
iitical oppression, and to re-establish
peace and prosperity throughout our lim
its. My interests are as thoroughly
identified with the interests of the peo
ple of this District as it is possible lor
the interests of an individual to
bo identified with general in
terests.
To the generous confidence of the
people of the District, and especially
those of my own county, I am indebt
ed for whatever of public preferment I
have enjoyed. I was strongly solicited
by very many persons, not only in Gor
don county, but Whitfield and
M array, to become a candidate
While these solicitation alone may not
have inspired my candidacy, they gave
me encouragement in asking your suL
frages. It will be impossible for me to
see any considerable portion of the vo.
tersofthe District personally, or to ad
dress them collective.ly, during the can
vass. Hence, 1 adopt this the only
available mode of acquainting you with
my views upon the subjects to be acted
upon by the next Legislatur-’. Deyond
its mere routine duties, it will be the
duty of that body to make effective,and
to put inKY practical opperation by ap
propriate "legislation, the great re
forms proposed by the new Constitu
.. f '
Mon. _
sfou honored me with a seat in the
Convention that framed that Constitu
tion, and I esteem it dis®
tinction of my life to have borne some
pa r i|tn framipg. that admirable instru
ment, which,. tip doubt, it will be your
pleasure to ratify by a vote
approaching; unanimity. To state
what my votes anl views were in
the Coovemim, upon the subjects of
greatest interest's to you,is to e ate what
line of policy and action l will pursue
in the Senate, if elected. The new Con
stitution piovidos for bieanial sessions
,of the Legislature, reduces tile per diem
from seven to four dollars and mileage
from twent)-five to ten cents per mile,
and limits the session to forty days. It
cuts off the flood of local aud special
legislation, which afforded a:i excuse
for prolonged sessions; it limits clerk
hire in both Hou.es, inclusive, to $l3O
,per day • it authorizes the reaction of
the number of Judical Circuits to six
teen, jxnd Lssens the salary of the
iedges ; it cuts down the salaries of the
Governor and ail le State IL*use offi
cers, aud limits tire number ad pay of
clerks and attacdoes in this department.
tUudur the old Constitution the legisla
tive pay-roll for two years amounted to
above two hundred thousand dollars ;
under the new, it need not exceed $40,-
.000, a saving to the &tate of $30,000 i
annually. Clerk hire costing, herefore.
aboye fifty thousand dollars for two ses%
sions need not cost, hereafter above
five thousand dollars, a saving to the
State of twenty thousand dollars, annu
ally. The expenses f r the Judiciary
Department will be reduceds2s,ooo,aud
fur the Executive I)epartmemtslsoooan
ariully. These a e the leading measures
of ecouomy directly reached by the Con
stitution. The Legislature should exact
a rigid observance of these provisions.
An effort may be made to complement
the pay of clerks by compensation for
pretended extia services and fat jobs,as
compiling and circulating the law, &o.
As Senator,should I be elected, I will
firmly resist every effort to evade
or neutralize the measure of the re r
form.
About $60,000,000 is invested in
railroad property in Georgia, owned by
corporations. This immense wea’thjbe
long to about a half dozen corporations,
equals one-fourth the value of all other
property in the State. Until recently,
this railroad property has been absolute"
ly free from the burdens of taxation. —
The large profits of this productive pro.'
perty have gone into the pockets of
wealthy corporation unLxed, while
small properly holders have been sub
ject to ruinous taxation. Recently a
desperate struggle has been waged be
tween the people and the corporations
over this iniquitous discrimination. —
Onr new Constitution contains a
clause upon this point: “The right of
taxation is a sovereign right, inaliena
ble * * * * The
Generable Assemby shaJJ not have the
authority to irrevocably give, grant
limit or restrain this right, and all
laws, grants and contracts, and all oth
er acts * * * * to
affect any of these purposes, shall be
and are hereby, declared to be null and
void.” This clause had my hearty sup
port in the Convention. I have no
idea that the struggle between the peo
ple and corporations has yet ended.—
These powe.ful monopolies will contest
stubbornly every inch of ground in the
Legislature and in the courts. If elect
ed, my oath to support the Constitution
as well as every inpulse of my nature,
will impell me to resist every devise and
scheme to evade or modify the full op
eration of the above clause. The strug
gling masses of tne people have been
pressed to the earth by taxation almost
unbearable, while wealthy corporators
luxurated in their gains’ and their rail
road property has borne none of the
burdens of government. This thing
was simply intolerable and ought never
again to be tolerated. There is anoth
er abuse of corporate power, the extent
of which our people do not fully real
ze. Railroad companies combine fur.
the purpose of exacting fro 11 citizens,
along their lines,exorbitant local freight
charges. They thus make great dis
crimiuations against our own citizens
and in favor of citizens of other States.
To illustrate, it costs nearly as much to
ship a ton of hay or a bushel of wheat
from Gordon county to Atlanta, and
nearly as much to ship an invoice of
goods from Atlanta to Calhoun a from
Baltimore or New York to Calhoun. —
This put our farmers in direct competE
tion, upon equal terms, in our own mar
kets, with the vast grain producting re
gion of the West, and gives our com
mercial cities no advantages over the
sea board cities of other States. This ,
unjust discriminations takes from ten
to twenty per ceat. from the profits of
what we sell, and adds from ten to
twenty per cent to the cost of what we
buy. These differences go 'n‘.o the
coffers of the corporations instead of
remaining where they belong—in the
pockets of the people. The railroads
thus become great channels through
which the hard earnings of the people
flow in steady streams into the pockets
of capitalist at the great money centres.
It makes the rich richer and the poor
poorer. This incessant drainage is a
chief cause of the distress of our section
of countiy. Tue people have long rais
ed their ineffectual protest agaiust th's
oppressive system, but there the power
and the influence of the huge no lied
monopolies have, heretofore, proved an
overmatch tor them.
Our Constitution comes to the relief
of the oppressed peopl It declares:
“The power and authority of regulating
freights and passenger tariffs, prevent*
ing unjust discriminations, and requir
ing Reasonable and just freight and
passenger tariffs, are hereby conferred
upon the Gene:al Asscrnbly,whose duty
it shall be to pass laws from time to
time to regulate freights and passenger
t'riffs, to prohibit unjust discrimination
on the various railroads ol the State,
and to prohibit said roads from charg
ing other thau just aid reasonable rates,
and enforce the same by adequate pen
alties.” This railroad question, under
this paragraph of our Constitution, will
be the battle ground in the tvext Legis
lature. If returned to the Senate I
will exert myself to the extent of my
ability to carry out. by appropriate leg.,
islation, the constitutional provisions
last refered to, and thus relieve my con
st itm-nts from an imposition under
whico they have long suffered. A dis
tinguisl.te 1 Georgian who has the .hap*
py faculty of grasping an idt\a on its j
entirety and*expressiug.it in the most'
forcible phrase possible, has said, in
speaking f our present Constitution . i
‘ There was in fact Constitution no lim- •
itation upon legislative power } the treas
ury accessible, exemptious from
taxation were possible and sudsidies at
tainable.” That Constitution seem* to
have been framed in the interest of cor
poratious. The proposed Constitution
is in direct and safe contrast to the
present Constitution, upon all these
points. While honest and experienced
legislators, nearly the whole of the evils
of bad legislation, under which our peo*
pie have suffered, will be avoided and
obviated ; and there is no reason, now
that our federal relations have been hap
pily adjusted, why our State should not
enter at once upon anew era and a
prospero is career. I will not worry
you with further details. lam a can
didate fur the Senate—the candidate
of no clique or faction, or section of a
party —I am a candidate upon my own
merits, whatever you may judge them
to be. If elected, I will faithfully act
upon the views here embodied. The
first paragraph in the Bill of Rights in
the new Constitution declares : “All
government, of right originates with the
people, is founded upon their will only
and is instituted for the good of th^ t
whole. Puplic officers are tho trustees
and servants of the people, and at all
times amenable to them.” When I
voted to place this declaration in the
forefront of the Constitution, I believed
it to be the true theory of Republican
government. By this standard I ask
you to judge my past conduct as your
representative, and P shall be the guide
of my future conduct, should you furth
er honor me.
Respectfully,
J. C. Fain.
Sheriffs Sales for December*
Will be sold before the Court House
door, in the town of Calhoun, on the
first Tuesday in December, between the
legal hours of sale, the following prop
erty, to-wit:
Lots of land numbers 88, 93, 94, 123,
124, and 92, except that part of 92 ly
ing east of Conasauga river and sold to
J. M. Harlan; each containing 160
acres, more or less, as sold off on the
east side of Conasauga river—all in the
14th district and 3d section of Gordon
county. Sold as the property of Wm.
H. Bonner, to satisfy one execution is
sued from Gordon Superior Court, in
favor of Dennis Johnson, and trans
ferred to James M. Har'an, Ephraim
Strickland, and others, vs. Wm. 11.
Runner, for the purchase money of said
property.
Also, at the same time and place, will
bo sold, lot of land number 187, in the
7th district and 3d section of Gordon
county, as the property of A. W. Reeve
to satisfy one fi fa issued from Gordon
Superior Court in favor of R. R. Por
ter & Son vs. A. W. Reeve. Property
pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney.
Also, at the same time and place, will
be sold, two town lots in Plainville,
Gordon county, known as lote numbers
7 and 8, being part of land lot number
141, in the 24th district and 3d sec
tion of said county, each said town lot
fronting 40 feet on the Earle’s ferry
road, and running back thence north
ward 169 feet, as the property of J. M.
Gunn, to satisfy one fi fa issued from
Gordon Superior Court in favor of J.
A. Taliaferro, for the use of Boaz, Bar j
rett & Cos., vs. J. M. Gunn, for the
purchase money of said property.—
Property pointed out by plaintiff’s at
torney.
Also, at the same time and place,
will be sold, 50 acres, more or less, off
of the north side of lot. of land number
246, in the 14th district and 3d sec
tion of Gordon county, as the proper,
ty of I E. Bartlett, to satisfy one Jus
tice Court fi fa in favor of H. F. Fer.
gusun vs. I. E. Bartlett. Property
pointed out by plaiutiff. Levy made
and returned to me by W. H. Black,
L. C.
Also, at the same time and place,
will be sold, lot of land number 66, in
the 15th district and 3d section of Gor
don county, as the property of J. A.
Taliaferro, to satisfy one Superior Court
fi fa, in favor of John Garren vs J. A.
Taliaferro. Tenant in possession and
notified. Levy made by John Gres
ham, former Sheriff.
November 2, 1877.
W. Gr. Taylor, Sheriff.
Administrator’s Sale.
By virtue of an order from the
Court of Ordinary of Gordon county,
Ga., will be sold on the first Tuesday in
December, 1877, at the Court House
door iu said county, between the legal
sale hours, a certain traet of land, to
wit: 26 acres of lot of land number
287, and 14 acres of lot number 290,
in the 13th district and 3d section of
said county, as the property of J. L.
Powell, late of said county, deceased,
for the benetit of the heirs and credit
ors of said estate. Terms cash. This
November 2, 1877.
J. E. Powell, Administrator.
nov3-30d.
Georgia, Gordon County.
T. J Printup, administrator de bonis
non of A. P. Bailey, deceased, having
■applied to the court of ordinary of said
county for a discharge from said ad
mininistration, This is therefore to
cite all persons concerned to show
any they have)by filing ob
jections in my office why the said J, J.
Printup should not be dismissed, and
receive the usual letters of dismission
on the first Monday in February, 1877.
Given under my hand and official
signature, this Ncv. 2nd, 1877.
E. J. Kiker, Ordinary.
Ordinary’s Office,
Calhoun,Ga., Nov, 3.1877.
J. W. Barret t execution of David B.
Barrett, late of said county makes ap,~
plication for leave to sell a lot
of land belonging to his testator’s estate
toswit: Lot numbet 164 ,in the 14t£
District, 3 section, of said county.
If any person and ob
jections—they will file them in this of
office by the first of December next or
thejcyive.to-sell wt*l be granted.
E. J. Kiker, Ordinary.
Georgia, Gordon County] **
J. L.llays has applied for exemption
of personalty xnd setting apart and val
uation of homestead,and I will pass up
on at 10 o’clock A. M. on the 21si day
of November next, 1877, at my office,
in Calhoun, Ga.
E. J. Kiker, O-dinary.
THE CEOTHING HOUSE OF HOME, GEORGIA.
I hare opened what has long been needed In this Section—A FIRST CLASS CLOTHING HOUSE.
My stock comprises suits of all grades for Men, Boys and Children, made in the latest style and best manner, at prices to compete with any first class Cl thing
House in this State. I have fu ll lines of samples of French, English and American Cloths, Cassimeres and Suitings, from which I will
have suits made to order by the best Merchant Tailors in New York. UI IS GUARANTEED IN E\ ELY C ASE.
I have also an elegaut stock of
Hats, Sblrts, Drawers; Hosiery; Suspenders; Scarfs; naiidliercJ - S)
Trunins and Valises,
and everything keptmn a first-class house.
I make a specialty of suits tor extra lare men. Agents for Keep’s celebrated partly made Shirts, the very best-Six for six dollars. Give me a call, ~
suit you in anything you want in my line. My Terms are Cash. No discrimination.
37 Broad. @t.,;R,ome GJ-a. (013’4Q W. IVB. U*AlVlfviOitL
THE OLDEST HOUSE IN CALHOUN
EstatoisliedL i857.
ISTEW GOODS NDTW GOODS
WE are pleased to notify our friends that we are ~ow i<*yin in a .arge and suj eri
stock of
Seasonable Groods.
Those who wish Bargains will give us a call.
FOSTER & HARLAN.
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ISISf
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ASK YOUR GROCER FOR IT!
' Depot, 104 EEADI STSMT, lew York.
jun 9 1 v.
Pianos and Organs !
DO YOU WANT TO BUY A PIANO OR ORGAN OF ANY FIRST
CLASS MAKER? Do you want to buy a Piano or Organ on Installments?—
Do you want to buy Sheet Music, Books, Strings, etc. ? Du you want to ex
change an o.'d Piano or Organ for anew one ? Du you want to rent a Piano or
Organ ? Do you want to have your Piano or Organ tuned or repaired ?
Send Your Orders to
€. W. LING WORTHY,
BOME, GA.,
ONLY MANUFACTURER’S AGENT
FOR THE SALE OF
4ND OTHER FIRST-GLASS INST UsVItNTS FJR GEORGIA, ALA
BAjWA AND TENNESSEE.
Eleven yeags use in the Southern climate has proved the Shoningey Instrument
inferior t 9 no other Mann acturers’
The fehoninger Piano needs the same care as Steinway, Chickcring or Knabc. in
in tuning, etc., but no more. The customer really gets more for his money in a
ingor Pift.o,o any other first-class instrument made The Pianos hive Kos wood
caes, and every modern improvement an. are Oct yes. Every instrument, the
cheapest or highest price,
JFVfLY WARRANTED TOR SIX YEARS,
Stjsg qxij. ttfwcrx famished with evc/y Instrument Free of Charge.
The undersigned, with experience since January, 18-36, in selecting instruments
and in repairing aud tuning the same, i better pr pared to satisfy t’l ..public than any
ether agent, and wouln refer to those now using his instruments, furnished during the
last 21 years, in Georgia, Alabama and Tennegseee.
'J ha**ktul for the appreciation of the public through a very liberal patronage, hope
o merit a continuation o L the same. Prices to suit the times Gannot be undersold in
hrst-clasa instrum ent. Write for circu.ars and catalogues, Correa x ondence solicited
CHATTANOOGA CARPET HOUSE.
C. H. RICHMOND,
EXCLUSIVE DEALER IN
Carpets,
OIL CLOTHS, MATTINGS. WINDOW SHM,
And the line of Goods Usually Kept in a Carpet Store.
Now on hand a seasonable stock, embracing the latest attractive designs
ac6-3o).
R. S. Norton & Son,
ROME, GA.
AREfcNOVV RECEIVING A LARGE AND FINE STOCK OF
Bry Goods, Hoots, Shoes,
2-IATS, cfcc.,
Which were bought ve 'y low and will be sold at short profits LOWER*! PRICES
THAN HERETOFORE IN I OME.
To satisfy yourself please call and examine. ’ sep29-2ui.
'Warranted as Represented!
ALLEN & McOSKER
ffk DEALtiRS IN
fL, WATCHES, CLOCKS,
C '" ■ ROME, GEORGIA
Celebrated Perfected Spectacles,
JUST RECEIVING ONE OF THE LARGEST STOCKS OF
CIjOC ISL J&. 2? J X> arHU W JEILPL3T
EVER BROUGHT TO ROME.
Repairing done in all its branches and warranted to give
Satisfaction.
Grive Us a Call.
ALLEN & McOSKER.
oco 3tn.
B. SHONINGEE &
Co.’s
H. A. DOIiSEY’S SALOON,
Railroad Stjeet. Always ou hand choice
Liquors, etc., and the wants of customers
wilil at all times be attended to with prompt
ness and politcnesss. 8-lyebf
W. W. DUNN,
MERCHANT TAILOR
AND CLOTHIER.
In stock a good variety of piece goods,
such as ejetra quality Cessimei 1 -, Jeans, &C.
Alsp trqijmings of all kinds.
Is prepared to cut and make cloti.it. jin
the latest stylis and best manner.
A good assortment of
Ready-made Clothing
on hand to which I invite the especial at
tention of the public. noB-3m.
ii iras. uni in,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
STOVES 1 TINWARE
T’nrnisSuHSi Goods,&•
Plumbing, jPiis si $ and .Steam t ittmg ' v
■’ Special attention to H.'ofrg,
C tillering, ,and Galvanized
nico \v or k.
No. 35 Broad Street,
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