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Wednesday Morning,—April 18,1877
A prominent leature of resemblance
between the election of one of the Louis
iana G*veinois and that of Hayes, is
both we re packed card games.
While the Grand Duke,Nicholas,is the
nominal head,the real military Chieftain
of the Russian Armies is General Ne-
pokoitchitsky; and when the soldiers
wave their hats and shout “hurrah
for Nepokoitcbitsky!” it sounds as
though they had a sudden violent epi
demical shock of sneezing.
Our Washington Correspondent
w rites us that, “It is felt here that the
mission of the Louisiana Commission
hasprovid a failure. But it is thought
that Packard’s lack of funds will soon
decide the mattes, in Nicholls favor and
relieve the Administration of the neces
sity of deciding between the rival as
pirants to the Gubernatorial chair.”
The Seal of the Georgia Society for
Preventing Cruelty to Animals, consists
of a horse hitch* d to a two wheeled
cart—the hn:se, from exhaustion
drawing the heavily loaded cart, has
falhn down; the driver stands over the
horse belaboring him with a club
while an angel appears with a drawn
sword ai d orto hand raised in warn
ing.
Back scratehers, instruments with
long ebony handles, are sold in New
York.— Courier Journal.
“Back si ratchets with lorg ebony
handles” were formerly used in the
South. The {latent has expired now,
however. It was taken out by old Mr.
Noah to punish his son, Ham, with
who was wanting in paternal respect,
once when the old gentleman in sam-
plinghis new wines took “jist a dthrap
too much.”
General News Items.
A butcher says he never “sausage”
bard times at his house.
Lawyers should sleep well. It is
immaterial on which siae they lie.
There are 1,423,017,127 people on-this
terrestrial globe, of wnom 43,455,000
die every year.
An eighteen-inch snake has been
ejected from the stomach of a Milwau
kee ex-mayor’s son.
Pat away the breakfast baton,
Likewise, hominy and beans;
They will soon be all forgo.ten
For hog jowl and turnip greets.
Ninety million people speak the
English language, 45,000,000 speak
German, 55,000,000 Spanish, ar.d 45,-
000,000 French.
Treasury officials estimate that at least
810,000,000 fractional currency are lost
and worn out, and will never be presented
for redemption.
Ad Arkansas Judge dismissed a juror
from the box, on account of deafness
in one ear. His honor declared that a
juror should hear both rides.
A little boy came to his mother re
cently and said, “Mamma, I should
think, if I was made of dust, I’d get
muddy inside when I drink coffee.”
Some thirty failures took place in
New York city in the month of march.
The aggregate of debts was $5,S12,000.
The aggregate of assets, 89S4,832, a very
bad show.
Traveling on railroads will soon be
as pleasant as steamboating. In addi
tion to their sleeping cars, the Pullman
Palace Car Company have recently
placed upon several of our leading
railways their hotel cars. In these cars
one can take his meals as pleasantly
as at a hotel. The springs of these cars
are so finely adjusted as to entirely ob
viate all danger from the overflow of
liquids from the dishes, even when the
train is running at forty miles an hour.
Thus the New York Tribune: “The
negro has learned nothing good in his
elevation, and is.no better able to car
ry on a State Government to-day than
he was six years ago.
The only way to reform Southern so
ciety is to stand aside and leave the
voters free and unembarrassed. Then
if these communities are not utterly
corrupt, all things will soon find their
natural level, and the rule of the ma
jority will act as it acts elsewhere.
The effect of the late news from Europe
in reference to an increased probability
of war against Turkey by other Euro
pean powers is thus described by cur
Washington correspondent:
The speculators are already in the
field, operating with a boldness and au
dacity that testify more certainly than
words their belief that war is inevitable.
Breadstufis and almost all kinds of pro
visions show a remarkable advance; and
there is a wide-spread feeling that while
a war of the character threatened, will
prove death to many thousands and per
haps eventuate in the wiping out of a
heretofore formidable power, it will come
to us a golden opportunity, filling our
dismantled shipyards, and our idle man
ufactories with busy workmen at remu
nerative wages, and making glad the
heart of the agriculturist.
History of Appointment of the
Member of the Cabinet.
The New Orleans Times gives what it
claims is the history of the appointment
of the Southern members of the Cabinet.
The names considered were Governor
John C. Brown, of Tennessee; ex-Sen-
ator Key, of Tennessee ; General E. C,
Walthall, of Mississippi; the Hon. D.
B. Penn, of Louisiana, and the Hon.
John Hancock, ol Texas. Governor
Brown was offered a seat in the Cabinet
as early as February 2-5, and declined
because he was committed to the South
ern Pacific Railroad scheme. Hancock
was dropped from the list because-it
was thought the Cabinet officer should
come from the Mississippi river States.
Walthall and Penn were dropped be
cause it was feared the Senate, under
the leadership of Blaine and Morton,
would not confirm ; and Key was ap
pointed. This story, it is seen, is dif
ferent from that told by a Texas paper,
which declared thrt Hancock had been
offered the place and declined.
Jos. E. Johnson, President of
A University,
It may he that General Joseph E.
Johnston will become President of the
East Tennessee University. He likes
Tennessee and its people’ and would
have gone to Nashville at the close of
the war if it had not been for better
financial prospects in Savannah.—New
York Tribune.
There are bests of admirers of his,
not only in this city, but throughout
the Southern States, that would rejoice
if he could be induced to accept the
position referred to. There are intima
tions, if tendered him, he will accept.
— Kncrvillc Tribune.
A Corn. Caning of Alec. Stephens.—
Alexander H. Stephens recently sent
his_ compliments to Dick Thompson,
asking him if he remembered the pres
ent of a gold headed black walnut cane
which he made Mr. Stephent some thir
ty odd years ago. Mr. Thompson said
he had not forgotton it, adding: “Both
of us have changed a good deal since
then, and I suppose Aleck, as he is
now, could sit down in the shadow of
that cane and keep cool the hottest day
n the Summer.”
A Canada preacher said in a sermon
to a crowded house: “Dances are sent
from hell to Paris and thence to Canada
via New York and Chicago.” A man
in the congregation cried: “No. we’re
Grangers; we import ’em direct and
save the middlemen.”
Vice-President Wheeler’s home or
gan lets out the interesting fact that he
was the most surprised man in the coun.
try when he found the Electoral Com
mission had counted Louisiana for
Hayes and him, as he had expected
and predicted that its vote would be
thrown out entirely.
The whole number of colored soldiers
mustered in during the war was 169,-
G24 ; of these 86,923 were mustered out;
20,236 were discharged for physical
disability; 31,S66 died; 14,887 deserted;
1,344 were missing in action, and the
others were discharged for various
causes, thransferred to the navy or
other branches of the service.
When the passions, prejudices and
cold hatreds of the war shall have pass
ed away, and the next generation comes
calmly to look at the events of the past
twelve years, they wil. say that the so-
called policy of reconstruction was one
of the most amazing follies and politi
cal crimes that ever originated in party
malignity, and brought disaster in its
train.—Philadelphia Times.
Lord Lyons, as British embassador
to France, has a salary of $50,000. The
British embassadors to Germany and
to Rome have each a salary of 835,000,
and the latter receives an allowance
for rent of 86,000. The embassador at
Vienna gets $40,000, and the one at St.
Petersburg 839,000. Sir Henry Elliot
had at Constantinople 840,000, and Sir
Edward Thornton entertainB pleasantly
at Washington on a salary of $30,-
000.
Forty cities in the United States owe
four hundred and fifty millions of mu
nicipal debt, just one-fourth of the ag
gregate of our immense national debt.
New York leads with 8148,000,000, then
Philadelphia with $60,000,000, then
Boston with 843,000,000, then Brook
lyn with 842,000,000, then Cincinnati
with 822,000,000, then New Orleans
with 822,000,000, and Chicago with
81S,000,000, Charleston owes $4,672,663
and Savannah 83,600,640. Of these
forty cities San Francisco levies the
lightest tax, 81.12 per 8100, and Toledo
(Ohio) the heaviest, 84.44 per 8100.
FLOYD SUPERIOR COURT.
Grind Jury Presentments.
Personal Jottings-
Ben Butler keeps a Bible in his book
case. It keeps well.
“ Every man has his price and it is
fair to presume that Packard’s is some
thing better than Nickles.
Ex-Gov. Warmoth of Louisiana, is to
be married in June next to Mi6S Sallie
Durand, daughter of James M, Durand
the principal jeweller of Newark, New
Jersey.
A Washington dispatch says that
Mr. Randall has the pledges of 82 of
the 151 Democratic Congressmen to
support him for the Speaker.—Charles'
ton ATeies and Courier.
As a testimonial of South Carolina’s
appreciation of Senator Gordon’s servi
ces, it has been suggested by a Corres
pondent of the Neics and Courier, that
sufficient money be reised to buy his
little daughter, Carolina, who was re-
centlj’ born at Washington, a silver
service.
The late Dr. Muhlenberg was, in his
youth, engaged to marry Miss Cole
man, a sister of the lady to whom
James Buchanan was betrothed. The
young lady died before the time set for
the marriage, and it was his grief for
this loss that found expression in his
famous verses, “I would not live
alwav.” He never married.
Georgians.
A Marietta man offers oae hundred
dollars per bushel for grasshoppers.
Fifteen young men of Augusta left
with Howe’s circus, having obtained
situations.
Wilkinson county has produced a
“stem-wheel chicken,” with four per
fectly. formed legs and feet.
Hon. Alec Stephens has so much im
proved in health that he expects to take
an active part in the approaching extra
session of Congress.
It is reported in Atlanta that “Ali
unde” Joe Bradloy will hold the May
term of the Federal Circuit Court in
that city. He will probably lecture
for the Y. M. L. A.
The Savannah Correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph, having visited the
novel fleet, thus speaks of the guns on
the iron-clad, “Ajax:”
Our first movement was to investigate
the revolving turret, in which were
placed two tremendous guns. They
carry a ball weighing 550 ponnds, and
it requires a hundred pounds of powder
to give these missiles of death their
greatest momentum. The two monster
guns cost 844,000 a piece, and the en
gine cost about 8120,000, and other ar
ticles in proportion.
“Now, then, state your case,” said 1
Detroit lawyer the other day, as he pu l
the five-dollar bill away in his ves
pocket “Well,” began his client, “sup
pose the man living next door wants to
put a bam right up against my line,
coming within two feet of my house?”
“He can’t do it, sir—can’t do any such
thing,” replied the lawyer. “But I
want to put my bam right up against his
line,” remarked the client “Oh—ah—
yes, I see. Well) sir, go right ahead and
put your bam there. All the law in the
case is on your side.”
We, the Grand Jury, chosen and sworn
for the second week of the January
Term, beg to submit the following re
port:
• In reference to the public buildings,
Jail, Alms Hoase, as well as an inspec
tion of the books of the various county
officials, we did not deem it necessary to
examine, as they were thoroughly inves
tigated and reported upon in January
last.
A vacancy having occurred in the
Board of Superintendents of Public In
structions, caused by the resignation of
'John Harkins, Esq., we have elected
Col. John R. Towers as his successor,
and have had forwarded the necessary
papers to the Executive that his commis
sions may issue.
We have given seme attention and
have heard some complaints in regard
to various roads and bridges throughout
the county, and would ask the attention
of the Road Commissioners of the re
spective districts, and request them to give
the necessary orders to the overseers for
such immediate work as n>ay be neces
sary.
On the Alabama road leaning from
Rome to Coosaville, near the residence
of Green Baker, the toad is reported in
nearly an impassable condition.
At Beech creek the high water has
floated some logs in the road, which
should be removed.
We learn the bridge on Cabin creek,
near Coosaville, is useless, from the fact
that the grading at each end of the bridge
has giv :u way in such a manner that it
is with difficulty that a good mule under
Baddle can climb upon it, while wagon
travel is out of the question.
Considering the fact that this bridge
has cost the country about 84,000, and
was put there to be used when the wa
ters were high it should be put in proper
repair. It has never been in first-class
order.
One of the braces at Farmer’s bridge
on Armucliee has given way and the
heavy factory wagons make it somewhat
perilous crossing. An accident may
occur that would cost the county a great
deal more than tlic needed repairs.
Big Dry Creek bridge is somewhat
shaky, and in a bad condition. A large
amount of dirt lias accumulated on the
further abutment, which should be re
moved.
The road leading from Rome to Cal
houn to the residence of Mr. Holley-
man, having two small bridges. The
timbers are reported unsound and in an
unsafe condi.i-c.
On the Van Wert road some of the
bridges over ditches have some bad
pi ices, that have remained in this condi
tion several months, and should be reme
died.
The read from Rome toward Chttlio
District, known as Spring Creek road, but
in the Rome District, is in need of work
and attention.
At this season of the year, when far
mers ar.d their hands are busily em
ployed, we think it hardly advisable
for a general working of the roads, but
the oven eers should see that places that
are getting impassable and dangerous
should have immediate ^attention,
few hours’ work would generally put
them in traveling order.
Some'of the roads have been prop
erly worked, and their overseers deserve
the approbation and thanks of the pub
lic.
In regard to the jail, we learn with
pleasure that about eight.thousand dol-
lars(SS,000) is on hand for the new jail
fund, which we hope may be sufficient
ly increased until there is sufficient
funds to build a secure and substantial
building, and at the same time to make
it as comfortable to the inmates as the
safety of such a building will admit.
The court house wejshould say will
prove adequate to the wants of the
county for many years to come, at least
until the county is completely out of
debt.
We would recommend to the consid
eration of the Board of Commissioners
of Roads and Revenue that a hydrant
be put near the court house, which can
be donej quickly and cheaply. It
would he a great convenience to the
court while in session, and to the offi
cers during the entire year, besides sav
ing the expense of employing a hand
to carry water, which is now brought
from Broad Street.
We beg to return our thanks to his
Honor, Judge Underwood, and toSolic-
itor General Clements, for their kind
ness and attention to our body while
in session, and the ablemannerin which
they have presided over the delibera
tions of the court.
We recommend that these present
ments be published in the city papers,
paying each paper three dollars and
thirty-three and one-third cents re
spectfully.
Augustus P. McCord, Foreman: K. W.
Berry-hill, John J. Black, John P. M.
Byrd, Thomas S. Burney, Burwell A.
Barnett, James A. Beard, Thaddeus C.
Duvall, Samuel King, Thomas N.
Lloyd, Robert H. Porter, Wm. L. Sell-
man, B. G. Thornton, W. W. Tate, W.
B. Winkle, W. J. Vincent, M. C
Woodruff, John J. Whitehead, G. W.
Wiseman and V. M. Tumlin.
Ordered that these presentments be
published as requested.
J. W. H. UNDERWOOD,
J.S.C.R.C.
Entered on minutes of Floyd Supe
rior Court, Fo. 14, page 716.
A. E. ROSS, Clerk.
Washington Correspondence.
An Interesting Trial—A Tress: ry Thief to
the Tcne of 947,000-—How tbe
lawyers Picket His Bones.
The Grain Crop of Different
Countries.—In America three-ninths of
the cereals consist of maize. In Europe
oats predominate; then come wheat, rye,
barley, and maize, in order given. The
nations of Europe -which produce, rela
tively speaking, the most wheat, are
Spain, Italy and France; those which
famish the most rye are Finland, Switz
erland and Germany; and those which
produce the most barley, the Scandina
vian States and Germany. Oats predom
inate in Ireland, the Scandinavian coun
tries, Hungary and North Germany.
Maize takes the first rank in Remnants,
Servia and Portugal.
Washington, D. C., April 13,1877.
A trial of much local interest and
having some national importance, has
for some days engaged the attention of
the criminal court, Judge MacArthur,
at the City Hall. Up to this morning
the jury had been out forty-one hours
and there was no prospect of an agree
ment. The defendant, cne Oitman, a
rather popular restaurant keeper on
the Avenue, was charged some months
ago with being accessory to the rob
bery of tbe treasury of 847,000. The
case at first worried the detectives a
good deal; and every clerk employed
in the room from which the money
was abstracted was made very uncom
fortable by the consciousness that they
were under a constant police surveil
lance. After the lapse of some weeks
one of the missing bills was traced to a
Washington gambler of the unusual
name of Brown, and with the captiva
ting prefix of “Peg-Leg.” Almcst im
mediately a clerk named Hallicb,bold
ing a responsible position in the room,
was arrested as principal and Ottman
and Brown accessories. Tbe former
was convicted, chiefly on his own con
fessions to u detective, on the promise
that the evidence should not be used
against him; and it was owing largely
to the bad faith of the officer in ques
tion, that Hallick was granted a new
trial. As in the present trial, Ottman
escaped through a hung jury, although
the evidence appears so conclusive, as
to convince the public of his guilt and
that he treated his pals very shabbily,
rapaciously getting away with most of
the swag. At the present trial, Hal
lick was put on the stand to testify,
with the understandingthat if he made
a clean breast of the matter, further
proceedings against him would be dis
missed. Although Ottman will prob
ably escape the penitentiary, his law
yers, it is believed, have picked his
bones clean, eo that he comes out of it
utterly ruined in character and pocket.
Ex-Senator Carpenter was one of his
counsel. Knox.
Wendell Phillips Again.
‘Look ont for & Volcano In the North heu
Hell Opens In the South.”
Boston Cor. of the N. T. Herald ]
Correspondent—What do you think,
sir, of Wade Hampton ?
Mr. Phillips—In every sentence he
has uttered on his way to Washington
I can hear the crack of the old slave
holding whip. Since 18601 haye not
heard the crack of that whip until
Hampton sent that insolent letter to
Grant. If we had to-day a man in the
White House, Hampton would never
be admitted there after such insolence.
If I read the signs correctly, the people
have more self-respect than Hayes has,
and he will soon hear a warning growl
along the ground tier.
Correspondent—Why not wait, sir,
and let the Administration have time
to try its experiment? ^
Mr. Phillips—For two reasons. The
President friends have sold ns out. It
is no experiment, but a treacherous
bargain.
The bargain is plain. On the one side
the Democrats were to stop filibustering
and let Hayes be counted in. On his
side his friends agreed to withdraw the
troops; second, to recognize Nicholls and
Hampton as Governors; third, to charter
the Southern Pacific Railway, giving
away millions of national acres and mil
lions of national bonds. This last item
won Jay Gould and his pocketpiece, the
Tribune. We shall see the bargain car
ried out soon. This delay and Commis
sion are only to let us down easily and
accustom the public mind to the descent.
The troops once withdrawn, Mood and
starvation will rule the South. There
will be no Republican State south of the
Potomac. Of course, no Democratic
Governor or Legislature will ever call
for the national troops, and hence no sol
dier can cross the sacred boundary line
of a State. Henry Wilson confessed to
me that our great mistake was in lifting
those territories, after the war, into States.
Then there will be a "Solid South’’—the
old slave power under a new name. The
□ext Congress and tbe next President will
be Democratic unless the North becomes
a volcano. Then you will see millions
added to the national debt, in the shape
of pensions to Confederate soldiers, loans
to Southern States and railways, payment
of half the State debts, etc. When that
bell opens, you will see Hill and Lamar
put off their company clothes and tlieir
disguise of good behavior. They will ap
pear in their own proper persons. You
will not see Lamar, the actor, performing
rhetoric over Sumner’s dead body. But
you will hear Lamar, the Southern white,
shamelessly proclaiming in excuse for
that eulogy of Sumner, ‘“You understand.
I taw the carcass and used it to hoodwink
the Yankees.”
Sam Houston and the Ham.
L President Who Couldn’t Pay for Ois
Breakfast—The Old Merchant’s Story.
New York Snn.]
Galveston, March 26.—On a recent
business trip to Houston I had for trav
eling companion a well-known merch
ant of this city, who told story after
story of early days in Texas. One
struck me as worth preserving:
“When my father first came here,”
said the merchant, “be settled in Hous
ton—then the capital of Texas. I was
put in grocery and provision store un
der a yery strict and parismonious boss.
One moruing. just as I had sweept out,
Tom, Gen. Houston’s body servant,
came into the store. Looking round he
spied a fine ham—a rara avis in those
days. Having : sked the price, he said
he would take it, and the Presid. n
would call around and pay for it.
felt proud of my sale, and called the
attention of the boss to it as soon as he
came in.
‘“Did you get the money?’ he asked
quickly.
‘“No; but President Houston is com
ing round to pay for it’
‘“President Houston—the devil! Did
Tom say he would see it paid ?’
“No, sir.’
‘“Then you are a fool. New, sir, you
go straight to the President’s kitchen
and bring me that ham, unless Tom
will say that it shall he paid for.’
“I started off very much crestfallen
and not liking the job before me. But
I resolutely walked into the President’s
kitchen. Tom was there. I saw my
ham lying there, with a few slices cut
off it, and seizing it, told Tom, unless he
would undertake to see that the money
was paid, I must take it back.
“Tom cogitated awhile, and then said
‘Young man, take back your meat. The
Gineralis a mighty good master, but
mighty poor paymaster, and I don’l
keer to involvilate myself with his
debts.’
This was enough for me. I left with
the ham in my band. Going around
to the gate, I had to pass the front door.
Tnere stood Gen. Houston, the President
of Texas, with a pocket handkerchief
in one hand and a toothpick in the oth
‘My little man,’ says he, in his
superb manner, ‘tell your master I am
under great obligations for a most deli
cious breakfast, and would pay him
but I really haven’t got the money
The fact is, young man, Texas is very
poor, and, as her Preident, I must share
her poverty.’”
How to Mend a Broken N ck
Dresden Democrat.
Our Nashville exchanges give an ac
count of a man’s being killed by a blow
that dislocated his neck. It is a great
pity that Judge Rogers and Jack Vin
cent could not have been there at the
time. If they had, this poor fellow
need not have died.
A few years ago, Wes Stallcup was
riding a mule on the west side of the
public square in Dresden, when a dog
ran between the mule’s legs and caused
him to throw Stallcup ever his head on
the public scales. The crowd rushed
to him and pronounced his neck bro
ken. The Judge, who is a fine lawyer,
heard this announcement by the loaf
ing self-constituted doctors, and knew
what to do in a moment
“Oh! boys,” said he, “if that’s all we
can fix it directly. Some of you get
hold of his legs and pull and I will
manage his head.”
The crowd gathered Wes by the legs
and body, and the Judge, who is a
powerful man, by The head.
“Now, pull, pull steady—steady—
steady.”
The crowd pulled, and was pulling
the Judge along with Wes when Jack
Vincent ran up and seized the Judge
around the middle of the waist an!
exclaimed :
“Now, let the whole town pull, they
can’t budge us.”
Presently Stallcup gave a long gr.int,
when the Judgesaid:
“There, there—I knew it, I knew it.
I have set many a diislocated limt be
fore, and a man’s neck is just as easy to
pull in place as his elbow.”
Stallcup recovered,
Miss Claxton’s Premonition—A
Remarkable Coincidence.
Respectable Tet Very Hoggish
Way of Getting Rich.
Here is what a resident of Texas says
about hog. raising: Experienced men
calculate on an increase of ten pigs to
each sow annually, and at one year old
these sell at ten dollars a head. He makes
the calculation of a man starting with a
stock of five, increasing at the rate of five
a head, which gives him in a year thirty.
Fifteen of these he sells, retaining a like
number. At the end of the second year
he has seventy-five and sells twenty-five;
at the same ratio of increase, by the close
of the fifth year he can sell 265, leaving
him a stock of 500. Selling these at the
rate of eight dollars a head, his sales
amount to 810,840 during the period of
five years. Allowing an increase of
eight annually, at the end of five years
he will have have a stock of 500, and
will have sold 1,625 for 813,000, and, at
the rate of ten increase annually, the
amount of sales will reach 826,400.
Political Preachers.
Another Resolution from tbe New England
Bigots—The Holy Men Hold up tbe
President Hands.
Roundout, N. Y., April 9.—The New
York Methodist Conference to-day
adopted the following resolution.:
“While under ordinary circumstances
we should'decline to discuss the polit
ical «ffairs of the nation, we deem that
the present exigencies tall for an ex
pression of confidence in the upright
intentions and statesmanlike purpose
of President Hayes, firmly believing
that the policy thus far adopted of con
ciliation and good will towards those
formerly in bondage cannot fail to ad
vance the welfare of the nation and the
interests of God’s kingdom.’ A copy
of the resolution was ordered to be sent
to President Hayes.
N. Y. Sun, 12th.]
A Sun reporter yesterday morning
visited the Merchants’ Hotel, on Court-
Iandt street, where he met a well-known
physician of New Brunswick, N. J.
In the conversation that ensued the
name of Miss Claxton was mentioned,
and the doctor said:
After the terrible fire in Brooklyn,
from which she so narrowly escape,
noticed a great change in Miss Claxton.
The dreadful scene enacted in he pres
ence that night, and the details of the
disaster as they were subsequently car
ried to her, shocked her nervous system
io such an extent that I am doubtful
whetner she will ever wholly recover
from it Indeed, she seems to have a
premonition that she is to he burned
up. All her friends have tried, and
are now trying to dislodge the idea
from her mind, but in vain. I have
heard her say that ‘Fire and flame will
always follow me, and my life will be
yielded up in a tragedy more terrific
than any eyes have witnessed on the
stage.’ ”
At the very instant the doctor pro
nounced Miss Claxton’s words, the
wide doors of the hotel were flung open,
and a newsboy rushed in with an extra
announcing the terrible news from St.
Louis, and Kate Claxton’s almost mar
velous escape. For an instant the doc
tor was utterly paralyzed, and it ?ras
several moments before he was wholly
himself again.
The above remarkable coincidence
can be corroborated by at leaf t half a
dozen gentlemen who were .present at
the time.
If an increase of eggs be desired in the
poultry yard, before large sums of money
are expended in the purchase of ever
lasting layers, the system of keeping no
hens after the first, or at the most, their
second year is recommended. Early pul
lets give the increase, and the only won
der is that people persist as they do in
keeping up a stock of old hens, which lay
one day and stop three, instead of laying
three days and stopping one. In some
parts of England it is the invariable rule
to keep the pullets only one year. In
America they are kept until they are old
and worthless, and then sold to purcha
sers for fine “spring chickens.” The old
hens may be killed off in March or April,
when they are tenderer than at any other
time during the year.
“Who,8 Got the Button?’’—A De
troiter has invent* d a unique device for
the identification of lost children in
particular and everybody in general.
It consists of a button made in the or
dinary form of sleeve button, in such a
manner that the tup can be taken off,
disclosing a hollow receptacle for a
small piece of paper, on which is to be
written the name and address of the
wearer. On the outside of the top or
cover is the inscription in plain Roman
letters: “Where I live.’ See inside.”
The invention is called the “perpetnal
personal identification button.”
Ingenious Roguery.
Two ingenious young gentlemen
were arrested and lodged in jail yes
terday charged with, disregarding the
well-known school proverb:
He who takes what un’i hib’n,
W t en he's catcbed will go to pris*n.
These promising youths had hit ou
an artful scheme of robbery. One
would s’ar.d near the door of a store
while the other, from the other side of
the street, would playfully throw a
stone through the window. While the
indignant proprietor would rush out to
give chase to the mischievous marks
man thelatter’s associate walks into the
vacant store and lighten it of its till
and other portable valuables. The
trick has been successfully played in
several instances and the police have
been on the track of the speculative
young men for some weeks. Some of
these robberies show enough genius to
be amusing. A well dressed individu
al once walked into a shoe store fitted
on a pair of new boots, his old ones
being very much dilapidated. The
customer walked to the door to admire
the fit in the ful 1 light, while apparent
ly fteling in his pocket for his money.
A stranger in passing stumbled against
the newly hooted man. and drawing
back, hit him a-blow in the face and
ran away. “You villiau !” shouted the
cuFtomer, starling after his assailant.
“The ruffian !—catch him ! catch him!”
exclaimed the indignant shoemaker,
following up his customer. The shoe
maker was fat. The customer and his
assailant were both in good condition.
They out ran the shoemaker—and the
new hoots have never to this day re
turned to their original proprietors.—
New York Herald.
TOWERS PATENT IRON BEAM PLOW.
Tfce.-*<* Plow* have adjustable Handle*,
b* -**awn down uaiil
ku r Btinl ure an
q xicMy rpgu’a-ed t» any depth, ordinary ihar^
; without laying. The Turning Attachment i/ 645
il Pos lively will not choke in fool giouad.
Two Irreconcilable Conditions.
Debility and health are irreconcila
ble conditions Weakly people, that is
to say people who lack the vitality
requisite for a vigorous discharge of
each and all of the bodily functions,
are invariably afflicted with some,
though it may be a trilling, disorder of
the system. Atony, or a want of ner
vous and muscular vigor, is accompa
nied by poverty of the blood and lean
ness. A certain way to overcome it
and prevent the aggravated maladies to
which it must ultimately lead is to use
llostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which pro
mote digestion and assimilation of the
food, and thus are the means of fur
nishing the body with a supply of
blood of a quality essential to its proper
nourishment. Invigorating through
the instrumentality of the matchless
tonic protects the feeble from a host of
bodily ills which lurk in ambush for
the debilitated. The Bitters are an ar
ticle which it is most desirable to keep
constantly on hand.
Horrible Punishment of a
School Eoy.
A few weeks ago tbe children attend
ing a school kept by a priest at Capua,
Italy, were left to themselves a few
minutes, and one of them allowed a
favori'e canary of the master’s to es
cape from its cage. ’When the latter re
turned he demanded the name of the
culprit, and, on dismissing the other
children to their dinner, desired him to
stay behind, and go down on his knees
as a further punishment. The other
children, as they passed the butcher's
shop of their school-fellow’s father, ex
plained why he wouldn’t be home to
dinner, and presently his mother went
to intercede for him. When she made
her way into the room she found the
poor little fellow lying dead, crucified
en a table, his feet being cut off because
the table was not long enough. When |
her husband came he discovered the
priest in an adjoining room, and
plunged a poignard into his heart, kill
ing him at once.
TOWERS PATENT DOUBLE SHOVEL PL0«
A Superior Implement for Cultivating.
This is the best Plow of its class yet introduced, Lccauae it has adjustable beam, runs anr
by changing clevis : adjustable feet, c&rrvin? anv kind of ah*r» with M i. -n.r. *»«
_ . _ stable feet, carrying any kind of share with only one Bolt
By substituting a wooden Pin for either of the foot bolts makes a perfect
'•Break Pin," protecting the Plow from ievero shocks.
Manufactured by
S. BOISTES & CO.,
Kf)ME, r.’A.
Good Time To Purchase
H
AVIMi JUST RECEIVED A VERY LARGE STOCK OF
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notiona
etc., etc., etc.,
Bought at the r- cent large trade sales in New York, we now oirerto the trade our spleudid lira.
Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Roots and Shoes, etc., etc.,
rel
AT LOW DO If.V HARD TIME PRICES. PRICES C VA RA N r EED AS LOW AS A!
.JOBBING RASES NORTH OR SOUTH.
) goods tt retail, and propose to pave cur customers Time, Freight and Expease of jti
to other markets.
Rome, April.17,1S77.
w. t. McWilliams & co. re
CHEA P CASH STORE
KNOX & P ARKS.
WOULD NOW CALL THE ATTENTION OF OCR FRIENDS AND CU8T01KII
inj
and the public generally, to our well assorted stock of Dry Goods, which has recently b«
purchased at at lorn prices, consisting principally of
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Roots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, etc scl
DRESS
GOODS.
Ml
The National Firm.—The following
advertisement does not, but should appear
in Republican newspapers:
Rltiucrkord B. Hayes A Co.,
Washington, D C.,
Commission Dealers and General Jobbers.
No charge for Packing Tribunals. Office hours,
J. P. Bradley, 1 R. B. Hayes,
W. P Kellogg, j Special Stanley Matthews
J. Mad Wells, j Partners. Charles Foster,
G- W. Edmunds, j John Sherman.
The Important Question.
Of all loathsome diseases Catarrh
stands pre-eminent. It renders its vic
tim os disgusting to himself as to others.
And the most humiliating of all is the
consciousness that his presence is offen
sive to those around him. If any disease
deserves the name of universal, it is this.
Dietetic errors and the follies which Fash
ion imposes upon us tend to foster and
disseminate it. To the pitiful cry of its
victims, is there any cure for Catarrh f
there is but one answer consistent with
Christian reason. God has never sent
one evil into the world for which he has
not sent the remedy. For the greatest of
all spiritual and moral evils, the Great
Physician has prescribed a potent and
never-failing reimdy. He has given ex
plicit rules for the treatment and preser
vation of the spiritual and moral man,
but He is silent in all matters relating to
the physical man. It would be an un
warrantable detraction from His benefi
cent character to suppose that He has af
flicted tlie greater portion of humanity
with an incurable disease. The day of
plagues is past. The God of Christianity
is a God of Love, of Mercy, His message
is “good will to all men.” The earth and
all contained therein was intended by the
great Designer to supply man’s wants;
and surely he has no greater wants than
remedies for his infirmities. Science is
rapidly proving that the earth i»fitted to
supply man’s uttermost need. New med
icinal plants are constantly being dis
covered, and new properties developed
from those already known. For Catarrh,
the most potent remedy yet discovered is
Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Its efficacy
has been tested in many thousand cases
witli uniform success. Cases that had
been repeatedly pronounced incurable,
readily yielded to it. In confirmed, or
obstinate cases, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med
ical Discovery should be taken in connec
tion with the use of the Catarrh Remedy.
Full particqlars in Pierce’s Memoran
dum Books. They are given away hv
druggists.
Sacb as Mohairs, Black and Colored Alpacas, Challies, Delaines, Silk Poplins, Silk Pongesi, Bin
and Figured Grenadines, Black and Colored Silks, and a fine stock of Mourning Goodi,
At Prices Which are Astonishingly Low! ^
The fullest and finest stock of Hamburg Edgings and Insertings. Cuffs and Collars, Nsets
Rouches, Fissus, and in fact an endless variety of Fancy Notions, COI
Which are Unprecedentedly Cheap!
To apprec iate tbe gooda at the price,is to come and examine them. wh
In White Goods, such as Nottingham Laces. Marseilles Quilts, White and Figured Piques, Titi tiv
Damask Napkins, Crash Towels, etc., etc., w* are well stocked, and to realise what
bargains we are offering in this line is to call and see. I
CUSTOM-MADE SHIRTS AT HALF THE ORIGINAL PRICE! gto
Thankful for pait favors, and hoping to be useful as well as beneficial to our friends sad la
public, in the way of selling them more goods for the same amount of cash than they will bsik « "
to get sny where else in this section of country, ant
We are, very truly, yours, q
KNOX & parks.
mh24,tw-wly
CUSTOM-MADE SHOES!
ADLER & CLEMENT,
Manufactures of
Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Fine Shoes.
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The following is the report of tbe Julges to the “Centennial Commission’':
AWARDING DIPLOMA AND MEDAL
For SUPERIOR WORKMANSHIP in the FITTING and FINIS!
For the PROPER PROPORTION of the Shoes.
For the GOOD QUALITY of the Material.
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Just Received and Constantly Kept on Haw ing
the Above-Named Superior Shoes.
R. S. NORTON & SON.
SPECIAL NOTICE!
THE WHITE SEWING MACHINE!
Parties thinking of Buying a Sewing Machis
will find it to tlieir interest to see and try
the new Machine I have for sale, be
fore purchasing. It is
BOUND TO SUPERCEDE ALL OTHEES
^=0"*No matter wfat agents of oth'r machines may have to
ALL I3HAVE TO SAY IS FORJYOU TO
TRY IT BEFORE PURCHASING.
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Newspaper Advertisin'.
Newspaper advertising is now recognisned by
business men, having faith in their own wares,
the most effective means of securing for their
goods a wide recognition of their meritr.
Newspaper advertising impels inquiry* and
when the article offered is of good qusdity and
at a fair price, the natural result* is increased
sales.
Newspaper advertising is the meet energetic
anJ vigilant of salesmen; addressing thousands
each day, always in the advertiser’s interest
and ceaselessly at work socking customers from
all classes.
Newspaper advertising is a permanent addi
tion to the reputation of the goods advertised,
because it is a pormanent influence always at
work in their interest.
Newspaper advertising promotes trade, for
even in the dullest times advertisers secure by
far the largest share o what is being done.—
John Manning
It will prove itself And it comes from FIFTEEN TO TWENTY’ DOLLARS LESS IN ?
and is far superior, in every respect.
E. C. HOUGH,
Merchant Tailor,
09 Broad Street, Rome, Ga«
.A. FREE LUNCH-'
J DESIRE TO INFORM the citizens of Romo that I have'establieheda
FIRST-CLASS LAGER BEER W&
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Lager Beer Hall a first c!ass
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articles will be found constantly cn hand; will sell them at wholesale and retail, nil 9
vour orders. I will deliver to any house in the city one dosen pint bottles at
Cider at wholesale, per gallon, 35 cents.
Call at 97 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. . ._ r .
CHK. FROMM 5 Propr ,e,B
Millinery and Dress Making-
M ISS ISBELL, daughter of tie Proprietor, who ie fully pcttedftnllhe I?'''* »r*ii
to this department, and keeps a full etcck cf latest 'st-^HiojjfUilltfeiJ f
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Ladle, ere eepeclfullj'itTited to call at ST Broad Street.
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