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ESTABLISHED DST 1843.
THE COURIER baa a large and steady circu
lation in Cherokee Georgia, and is the best ad
vertising medium in this section.
M. DWTPTEIX, Proprietor.
Wednesday Morning, Jan. 2,1878
The Legislature of Tennessee ad
journed last week without making any
adjustment of the Stale debt.
Receiver Wickham, special commis
sioner appointed by the circuit court
of Richmond, Va., will sell on the 2d
of April the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, with all its rights, franchise"
and privileges. The road extends from
Richmsnd to Huntington, on the Ohio
river.
bling up from the surcharged heart and
went floating away on the eternal mur
murs cf the falling waters. Rock Creek
Falls are one hundred and five feet per
pendicular. There is also a Cascade
(all of forty feet above the large fall, and
the most beaitiful Lakelet that ever
painter sketched or poet dreamed »f.
All alone here in the wilderness, shut in
by mountains, rocks, spruce and cedars
this beautiful lake or pool lies hidden.
Few ever gaze on its crystal depths or
bath it its sparkling waters. It seems to
have been created alone to reflect the im
age of the stars forever, or to siug with
the voice of its murmuring waters the
Praise of Him who formed it here in the
early dawn of Creation’s morn.
Christmas has come and gone, and has
brought joy and gladness to mauy. It
has also brought agood many headaches.
Don’t those Rome boy3 wish they had
been up here «here there is no Council
to pass ordinances.
Fire crackers have been the order of
the day, and skyrockets of the night, un
til the nickles are all fled away.
The teachers and scholars of the Union
Sunday School bad a Christmas Tree on
Monday evening, where Santa Claus put
in an appearance in proper person. He
came flying in through a high window
in the Presbyterian Church and gave his
little friends many beautiful presents.
He was a comely old gent and we were
only sorry that he would not accept a
schooner of lager beer, for he looked like
a man who had been raised on it. Bless
his venerable lace, who will live to see it
again ?
The Czar has been telling the St. Pe
tersburg people that he intends to re
turn to the seat of war in the course of
another month, and that it is part of
his plan to march through Constanti
nople just as Kaiser Wilhelm did
through Paris. He is careful not io
say that the Turkish capital is to be
kept when captured, thus manifesting
a lively remembrance of Earl Derby’s
notification to Prince Gortschakoff last
summer that it was essential to British
interests that Constantinople should
remain under the control of its present
possessors.
The news from Europe indic,-jM^
disposition on the part of Wednesday eveningCapt. and Mrs.
Turkey to treat for peace. Ejj e j lr op e ^Vithers gave the young people a very
tures to the great powers of Ed sti 0tJ ^Wn'oyable party at theGoree House where
/eerytbing was lovely and the water
IItv.l suspended in mid air.
i The young Misses Smith were dressed
in a rehashed manner having on poplar
dresses cut diagotudinally across the bias
with diamond shoes in their buckles and
Milton Gold pendulums in their ears, the
effect was overpowering, grand, gloomy,
stupendous and magnificent.
Mi=s Brown, of Arkansas, wore liver
colored stockings of the latest pointer
dog importation, with chestnut burrs in
her hair, and was the happy recipient of
marked attention during the entire even-
icg.
Altogether, the evening, as well as the
week, passed off pleasantly. Xu disturb
ance of the peace, so far as I can hear,
anywhere in the countju One negro got
badly hurt in a wrestling match in town,
and will not recover.
Mrs. Patten, wife of Thus. E. Patten,
one of our most estimable citizens, is
hopelessly ill. The family have the
sympathy of the ccmmunity in their
great trouble. May you and your read
ers bate a happy New Year.
Pilgrim.
hostilities on terms proposed by n v .
having been rejected on account of theft
being considered as asking too much of
Russia under the existing state of af
fairs, he now turns the matter over to
England, without dictation by him,
asking the mediation of the English
Government. This is the first sign we
have discovered of a possible ending of
the war at an early day.
« » X
The latest reports, if true, are very
damaging to Osman Pasha’s reputation.
Under date of the 28th the Herald’s
Bucharest correspondent telegraphs
that it is currently reported and gener
ally believed there that Osman will be
tried by a military court of highest
jurisdiction, for the slaughter of wound
ed and captured Russian soldiers. It
is said the discoveries made by the
Russians since occupying the fortifica
tions of Plevna, the information gained
from Turkish officers, and, above all,
the absence of Russian prisoners, leave
no reasonable doubt that the Turks
under Osman Pasha have been guilty
of deeds which will render his now
illustrious name infamous, and for
which he is to be tried and punished.
Every day brings to light some ,new
horror at Plevna.
TO THE READERS OF THE COU
RIER.
In obedience to time-honored custom
and in accordance with the prompting:
of our heart, we wish you a happy New
Year.
And, as this is the time for turning
new leaves and making good resolves, it
will, perhaps, not be amiss to say that
we enter upon th6 year with grateful
feelings towards the readers and friends
of the Courier for the friendly support
in the past; and we promise them that
we will try to make our paper a welcome
visitor to the fireside, bringing with it the
general news of the day, with comment
and criticism upon all public affairs;
and that it shall be our endeavor to place
before our readers such matter only as
shall tend to the common good. Asking
pardon for saying so much, we wish you
all favoring breezes to waft you gently
through the year.
Washington Corxesnondenco.
Letter from Walker County.
LaFayette, Ga., Dec. 27, 1877.
To the Editor of the Courier:
Sir : I write to give a brief notice of
passing events up this way.
We have all got quieted down since
the election except a few inharmonious
sore scalps who are envious because other
men are more papular, have more friends
are blessed by Nature with a larger share
Of native ability than they possess them
selves. It is natural that those persons
sljould mouth around and talk and be
dissatisfied, but it don’t hurt nobody.
Nightshade will grow in a garden among
roses, and nettles will grow among cab
bages, and the only way to get clear of
them is to weed them out.
Lawyers have exerted a controlling in
fluence on the legislation of the world
ever since Cicero advocated the cause of
his clients in the Court House ia Rome,
and it will continue to be so.
Lilliputians may discharge their tiny
arrows in clouds; demagogues may ex
pectorate volumes of sound and fury,
but it will turn out at last to be mostly
wind. For a long and varied experience
teaches me that the great heart of the
people is always right.
Mr. A. R. McCutehen, Assistant State
Geologist, Capt. J. H. McCullough. Civil
Engineer, (who is engaged in drawing
some beautiful map3 of North
west Georgia for the Geological Bureau),
and your correspondent, lately spent a
week of our Indian summer weather very
pleasantly on Lookout Mountain looking
upon and sketching some of the grandest
scenery in the Southern or any other
States. We visited • Trenton Gulf, in
Dade county, which has hardly an equal
anywhere if we except the Colorado
Canyon and the Yosemite. ' Imagine a
Bloody Chasm three miles or more long,
fifteen hundred feet wide by actual meas
urement, and eight hundred feet deep,
with walls so perpendicular that they
lean over a little, with a waterfall in wet
weather of about four or five hundred
feet.
Dr. Little, State Geologist, says he
never saw anything in Switzerland to
equal this mountain gorge.
From the Gulf we went to Eagle Cliff,
Rock Creek Falls, and the Silver Lake
and gazed upon them until the burning
words of Birigin on the Rhine came bub-
Washington, Dec. 2S, 1S77.
Lieut. Walton, assistant inspector of
life saving service on the North Caro
lina coast, in obedience to orders to
thoroughly investigate all the circum
stances attending the loss of the Huron,
has just made his report, after exarnin
ing, under oath, a large number of
witnesses. Two of the points seeming
ly established by this investigation are
that if the station nearest the wreck
had been manned there would proba
bly have been no loss of life; and that
if the crew nearest had been promptly
notified of the disaster, when one Evan
O’Neil, a fisherman, first saw the vessel
ashore a few moments after the Huron
struck, there would have been sufficient
time for it to have got to the vessel in
season to have rescued irost of the
stranded crew. But instead of takins:
that course, O’Neil seems to have
leisurely landed, attended to all the de
tails deemed requisite to insure the
most ample returns possible from his
fishing trip before informing any one
of the drowning men on the beach, and
then to have waited for his breakfast at
home before going to the scene of the
wreck. This man appears to have been
a3 destitute of heart and impervious to
the promptings of humanity as the
veriest savage that ever lived. While
some of the fishermen that gathered
on the beach when the men aboard the
ill-fated ship were perishing, did their
utmost to save the lives of those washed
ashore, those of the O’Neil type appear
to have been sufficiently numerous to
have stripped every body that was
finally rescued from the waves of every
thing of the slightest value about their
persons, the hands of some of the
corpses being found shockingly muti
lated by the violence used in stripping
them of the rings worn. Lieut. Walton
says that on the 91 bodies found there
remained not one trinket, such as the
surviving Iriends would have cherished
as relics of priceless value; and he final
ly concludes with a recommendation
that precautions be at once taken
against the disgrace of employing
O’Neil in any capacity in the life saving
service. From the tenor of the report
it would appear that the names of quite
a number of the other wretches who
utilized the ghostly occasion to enrich
themselves, might well and properly
have been included in the list of those
who have forfeited every right to the
consideration and sympathy of their
fellows.
Mr. Chandler has had a good many
readers; and men of all parties appear
united in the belief that nothing would
be better calculated to drive President
Hayes over to the opposition than for
the Republican leaders to formally en
dorse the position taken by Mr. Chand
ler. Indeed, that would appear the
only alternative that would be left him
by such a declaration of a want of con
fidence in him from the party nom
inally supporting him. There seems
no denbt that a portion—perhaps a ma
jority—of the Republican leaders would
privately agree with Mr. Chandler in
his condemnation of the alleged anti-
Republican measures of Mr. Hayes;
but they regard such a public promul
gation of their views as Chandler has
given his as premature and to the last
degree impolitic under present circum
stances.
The impression is growing that the
House will undertake a general revision I
of the tariff law. If bo, we may expect
to see Republican arrayed against Re
publican, Democrat against Democrat
for there are few statesmen extant witi
whom the appeals of the pocket would
not be more potential than those of
party were they called upon to decide
between them; and with our vast ex
tent of territory and our diversified in
dustries it must be expected that the
views of members of the Bame party
will vary with the interests of the lo
cality represented; that the distance be
tween the extremely orthodox and the
superlatively hetrodox in theology, for
instance, Prince and Ingersoll, would
not be found greater than that between
the protectionist of Pensylvania and
New England and the free trader of the
South or West. The press representa
tives of localities where vast amounts
of wealth are ’massed are giving out
notes of alarm over the indications
they think they have discovered of a
purpose on the part of representatives
from those identical communities that
have clamored loudest for remonetiza
tion, to re-enact the income tax law,
If the inquisitorial features of such
a law could be avoided iu its execution,
and the provocation it affords for lying
could be reduced to its minimum
through regard for public morality, I
believe from what I see and hear that
poor people and those of moderate
means would regard the passage of any
law which would certainly extort the
proportional part the very rich,»houldj_
in equity pay with a tolerable >
of resignation.
The response of some one evidently
inVet-sted in the good name of the
me t eeters of the Washington Monument
Assofiiation to some strictures of Clark
Mills, tacitly endorsed by the Star,
seems to ignore the fact that contribu
tions have been constantly made since
the last stone was laid on the uncom
pleted shaft; and it must be regarded as
unsatisfactory. Knox.
Butler Shying Sis Bricks.
From Bader's Boston Speech. Dots. 22.
The Republican majority in the Sen
ate and four-fifths of the Republicans
>f the House consider the present
Southern policy of the President a mis
taken one But the general feeling
has been to prevent any collision. The
President was honest in his intention
and we were willing to see it tried. We
have felt on this subject that the least
said is the soonest mended. We tope
that the President will in time see his
mistake and join hands with the Re
publicans. Wo have kept silent on
htse questions, but they must be met
-ooner or later. The President has had
n opportunity to ascertain the truth.
Of course, it must be considered that
te has a Cabinet, a majority of whom
■vhen appointed, were not known as
Republicans. I tnink that will have to
be recognized, and that it soon will be.
The President will soon have to elect
with which of the two great parries he
will go. By next February he will
nave to decide whether he will take the
Republicans into his counsels or join
the Democrats. The present state of
I'ings cannot continue. No man can
uccessfully ride two horses going in
•pposite directions, however kind or
wise he may be. If he jomB the Dem-
icratic party there will be a great
creaking up of parties, and there will
tie the issues of finance, the tariff, econ-
■tuic questions of government and other
matters to divide upon. If the Presi
dent decides to join the Republicans
the party will be as powerful as it ever
has been. The Republican party North
will be united, and we can undoubted
ly carry New York State, and this
would give us victory in 1SS0.
The Cabinet.
An Interesting Tradition.
Baltimore Sun.
The' President is authority for the
-tatement that he contemplates mak
ing no change in his Cabinet, and it is
learned also that neither Messrs. Evarts
>r Schurz have any idea of resigning.
The President is firm in his intention
■o maintain his position, and to decline
dictation from SenatoiB as to his ap
pointments, Cabinet or otherwise. He
has not assumed his position as to his
power to make removals and appoint
ments without a careful examination
of the law and the facts.
This matter was discussed even du
ring the administration of Washing
ton, and in 1789 a law was passed af
firming the right of the President, un
der the Constitution, to make removals
without the co-operation of the Senate.
There is also a decision by the Su
preme Court that this is the pro]
construction of the Constitution, ant
was so held down till the passage of
the terure of-ofnee act in Andiew
Johnson’s time. Many Republicans
have always pronounced this law un
constitutional, and though it remains
a modified shape on the statute
books it was absolutely a dead letter
during the whole eight years of Grant’s
administration.
A poor young man once fell in love
with an heiress, and the passion being
returned, it only wanted the parent’s
consent to make them happy. At
length, meeting the father, he asked for
the daughter’s hand.
“How much money can you com
rnand?”
“I can’t command veiy much,” was
the reply.
“What are your expectations?”
“Well, to tell the truth, I expect to
run away with your daughter and
marry her if you don’t give your con
sent.” _
Rome, Dec. 28.—The Pope held a
consistory at the Vatican to-day. Mon-
signore Moretti and Pellegrini were
nominated Cardinals. Some Bishops
were appointed. The Pope read a
short allocution concerning his health
and asking them to pray God to help
the Church and preserve unimpaired
the mind of its head, whose body’ was
ail : ng.
London, Dec. 29.—Two meetiDg3 of
workingmen were held in Trafalgar
square to-day. One was pro-Turkish
and the other anti-Turkish. Seven
thousand pirsons were present. The
meeting resulted in a free fight, lasting
an hour. The police interfered.. Two
arrests were made. Nobody of impor
tance present
A traveler going to bed, was surprised
to see a ghost, which—or who—in a se-
pulchural tone, began, “I-am the spirit
of one who was foully murdered here.”
“That’s no business of mine,” said the
traveller, turning over on his pillow,
apply to the proper quarter. Good
night.”
Belgrade, Dec. 25.—Servians .cap
tured Pirot, about 35 English miles
south ofNisch, with a quantity-of guns’
and ammunition: no details.
OnrreadeiB,eays the Savannah News,
are aware that at the last meeting ol
the Georgia Historical Society an in
teresting paper on “Sketches and Tra
ditions of South Georgia” was read By
Hon. W. W. Paine, and was highly en
joyed by the entertained audience.
Assured that it will be read with great
interest, we present this morning ont-
of the traditions related by Capt Paint
concerning a leading spirit of Georgia
in the early history of the State:
One of the leading spirits among the
whites of the period I write of was
Daniel McGirt, one of those fearless
men who are bom to command. Ht
had a strong mind and ready eye, and
tis stalwart arm was felt in many a
fray; and as a popular leader he con
trolled with an iron hand those of less
will and nerve.
McGirt, who once sided with the pa
triots and afterward denounced them,
would often gather a few men, go into
Florida, then a Spanish province, and
return laden with spoils, such as ne
groes, horses, mules and cattle, ano
sometimes with gold and silver, and
bis nam* became one of terror and
aversion both to Spaniards and Indi ’
tins. So great was the Indian hatred
•o McGirt, end so odious his name,
that they determined, if possible, to
take him prisoner, and then torture
bim at the stake, in accordance with
Indian custom, and which is the re-"
finement of cruelty.
One day when McGirt was returning
from a successful foray, followed by a
large body of Indians, be came verjj 1
near being surrounded and taken m*
his camp. Mounting quickly his horse
be rode for the Altamaba, a few miieg
i-v pnrenod by the whole
l .i« , »7#*j»A&nE, some hundred *in,
'.iua Bi<£> jfjo determined on taking
him alive, sent parties to. cut him off
from all the usual crossings of the river;
and this they succeeded in doing. As
Boon as McGirt was aware of their de
sign. be tamed his horse’s head toward
a high and overhanging bluff, closely
pressed on his flaDks and rear by tbose
i hirsting for his life. McGirt was equal
to the emergency, and being mounted
on bis splendid mare as fully renowned
as Dick Turpin’s “Black Bess,” he
reached the blnff, and for a moment
surveyed the premises. Behind him
his foes were rushing on in wild con
fusion yelling like so many devils in
carnate, and his quick eye espied par
ties of the savages creeping npon bim
from either side. Before him were the
dark waters of the Altamaha," flashing
in the sunlight sixty feet below. Gath
ering bis reins tightly in his band and
driving his spurs deeply in the flanks
iff his noble steed, they took tbe leap
For a moment rider and horse seemed
poised in the air and appeared in bold
relief against the sky, tben with a rush
ing sound, they sped downwards, and
reaching the water sank beneath its
waves, to the surprise and utter dismay
of the savage foe. So impressed
were tbe Indians with the daring of
McGirt that they at once supposed him
protected by the Great Spirit, and
when he and the mare rose to the Bar-
face not a gun was leveled against him
Tbe Indians' pronounced bim “Great
Medicine,” ana retired from the chase,-
and McGirt reached in safety the oppo
site bank.
This unprecedented leap gave name
to the place, and it is called to this day
“McGirt’s Bluff," and years after the
boatmen and raftsmen on tbe river
would, as they passed the same, speak j n ancient days
of the leap for life of the bold pioneerr lug.
Washington Hews.
Washington, Dec. 28.—Patterson
restless last night. ,
[Note.—It is not Patterson perse, but
the United States Senate also that is
sick that warrants these bulletins.]
Amazement at Chandler’s letter in
creases.
Tbe Secretary of the Navy has re
turned. • ' :
Attorney-General Devens is expected
on Monday.
Assistant Secretary Hawley represen
ted the Treasury Department
In the Cabinet tbe Rio Grande affairs
were dismissed, but action postponed
for more definite information.
Judge Carter has issued a rule against
Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior
to show cause why a writ of mandamus
should not be issued for a deed for cer-
v cain lands.
-* The Cabinet proposes giving a deci
sive consideration to the recognition of
Diaz next week.
Dr. Baxter, who has been among the
attendants on Patterson, says he is pro
gressing rapidly to recovery.
Washington, Dec. 29.—Evarts is
quoted that the President may renomi
nate persons whom the Senate has re
jected.
A special to the Baltimore Sun sayB
Secretary Scbnrz states, personally, that
he has a work to perform in his present
position, and that he intends to remain
m the Cabinet and do it, unless he is
removed.
Also, that President and Mrs. Hayes
have distinctly intimated to their friends
that no presents will be received on the
occasion of tbe approaching celebration
of their silver wedding.
Nature is full of compensations. In
these days, when every rich man’s will
is contested, and when, for the sake of
a little more money, be .is physically
and morally turned inside oat, the poor
man closes bis eytB in death with a
certain degree o' satisfaction. Evety
rich man is insane when he makes his
will unless he leaves all his property to
each of his children; but the poor man
can die of any disease he chooses and
be quietly put under ground withont a
word of criticism.
What is an Inch of Rain ?
Few fanners realize the true extent of
the rainfall on their crops, althoug fewer
still are acquainted with the vital import
ance of its sufficiency. Our able Agri
cultural Commissioner, Dr. Thomas P.
Janes, in his “Hand Book,” fully en
lightens us on the subject:
“An English mile consists of 6,273.
640 square inches, and an inch deep of
rain on an acre yields 6,273,640 cubic in
ches of water, which, at 231 cubic inches
to the gallon, makes 27,154 gallons, and
as a gallon of distilled water weighs 10
pounds, the rainfall on an acre weighs
271,540 pounds avoidupois; counting
2,240 pounds as a ton, an inch deep of
rain weighs over 121 tons per acre. For
every one-hutrdredthof an inch in depth,
1.2 tons of water falls on an acre, and
tor every tenth of an inch, 12 tons of
water.
“On an average in Georgia, from 46
to 50 inches of rain falls iu a year, mak
ing the equivalent of 5,600 ions or more
of water on a single acre. Some idea
may be thus formed of the enormous
supply nature furnishes. It would take
en loads a day, every day in the year,
to, supply, on a single acre, the quantity
of water which nature furnishes gratui
tously. These facts give some idea of
the impossibility of the irrigation of
crops, except where water can be cheaply
conveyed by natural torces to where It is
needed.
“Excess and defect are alike injurious
to crops. The distribution in Georgia is
such as to secure a good general average
of crops, and the climate in this respect
may be considered favorable.”
In his will Gen. Forrest requests that
his body be interred among the
Confederate dead in Elmwood Cemetery.
“It being my wish,” he says, “that my
remains shall rest with those who were
my comrades in war, and shared with
me the danger and peril of battle-fields,
fighting in a cause we believed it-was
our duty to uphold and maintain.”
The sword and pistol “with which
fought in the Confederate army,” he
gives to his son Wm. H. Forrest, “with
the injnnction to use them wnenever
called upon to do so in the honorable
service of his country.”
Mr. M. L. Bamberger, a wholesale
wine dealer of Berlin, has lately pub
lished the component parts of the va
rious brands of German, French and
Spanish wines on sale in Germany.
All were analyzed and found to con
tain deleterious matter. But few were
made from grapes, and two were found
entirely destitute of any natural pro-
duct _
Barry Sullivan, who a short time since
was playing Othello, met with a reply as
unanswerable as it was unexpected. His
frequent allusions to the handkerchief,
“where is the handkerchief?” suggested
to one oi the Hibernian “gods” to an
swer: “Never moind yer handkerchief,
sorr; blow yer nose, anyhow, and git on
wid the play.”
The culture of coffee in Southern
California is becoming profitable. Tbe
plant grows as vigorously as in the
coffee countries of South America, and
vields a bean of a strong aromatic flavor.
The central and southern portions of
State are the regions peculiarly favor
able.
Distinct sounds produced at the rate
of twenty-three per second, become a
continuous sound, and the Richmond
newspapers are looking forward to the
day when they can speak of the roar of
the Moffett bell-punch.
When a man starts for the dentet he
generlly-takcs a toolh-hurty gait.
A man who was trying to sell rather
a dismal residence boasted that it com
manded a view of the railway station.
“But that doesn’t make it any more
pleasant,” said the party who was ex
pected to purchase it
“Oh, yes it does,” replied the owner,
confidently. “I makes it gay here. You
can stand on this step and see every
body that misses the train.”
— '
It was an Irish coroner who, when
asked how he accounted for an extra
ordinary mortality in Limerick, re
plied, sadly:
“I cannot tell. There are people
dying this year that never died before.”
The decrease in the sales of high-
priced gloves is due to the fact that
American manufacturers have brought
their gloves to the excellence of foreign
makes, at prices low enough to place
them within the reach of all.
Dean Swift said that the reason a cer
tain university was a fearful place was
that most pernsons took some karning
there, and but few brought any away
with them, and so it accumulated.
the precept was
now tbyself.” In modem times it
has been supplanted by the far more
fashionable maxim, “Know thy neigh
bor and everything abont him.”
A reporter of a Chicago newspaper
was dismissed last week for speaking of
a Chicago business house as “the largest
in the West,” instead of “the largest in
the world.”—St. Paul Press.
Captain Joseph and his band are
now nicely and snugly quartered at
Fort Leavenworth, with nothing to do
but eat their bog and hominy and
smoke their pipes in peace.
A notorious miser, having heard a
very eloquent charity sermon, exclaim
ed : “This sermon strongly proves tbe
necessity of alms. I have almost a
mind to turn beggar.”
“You never saw ray hands so dirty
as that,” said a petulant mother to her
little girl.
“No, but your ma did, I’ll bet.,” was
the reply.
Four thousand yourg New Hamp
shire trout arrived in good condition iu
Virginia City lust week, and were put
in the reservoir of the City Water
Company.
The Philadelphia baby show broke
up in a hand-to-hand fight by the
mothers over the prizes. The police
cleared the hall of exhibits and spec
tators.
There was nothing but a plain slab
at the head of the mound, but the sim
ple inscription upon it tells its own
sad story: “He was umpire in a close
game.”
The Central Literary Bureau at Ber
lin offers a prize of 2,000 marks for
the best novel dealing with German
subjects of the present time.
There are now but two Catholics in
the Senate of the United States, since
the death of Senator Bogy. Those two
are Kernan and Spencer.
The Right Rev. W. M. Green, Episco
pal bishop of Mississippi, is inill health,
and for the present he has abandoned
cbnrch work.
Strange Origin of Diphtheria.
The diphtheria among children has
become the plague of New England,
and a correspondent of the Boston
Globe, writing from Burlington, Ver
mont, where the disease has been a ter
rible scourge, gives this remarkable ac^
count of its origin:
The origin of diphtheria can be
traced to inhalation of the air which
has been vitiated by contact with sink
sewage. The ordinary sewage of a
dwelling, composed of all kinds of ex
creta, is incapable of causing the dis
ease. Most of the lead pipes leading
from the kitchen sinks in every house
hold are lined by a deposit of bacteria,
which can be discovered by a micro
scope of low power. The same bacte
ria can be found as a part of the mem
brane taken from the throat of a diph
theritic patient. The disease is local
in the beginning, but very soon is fol
lowed by constitutional symptoms of a
grave character. In contracting the
disease the child inhales bacteria,
which, in passing into the lungs, is in
tercepted by the throat, which affords
proper soil for development of germs of
this class.
ICZ, I
DKGIA, >
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Revenue Seizure.
United States Internal Revenue,
Collector's Office, 2d District, Georgia,
Rome, Ga*, Dec. 24,1877.
N otice is hereby given of the
f .Mowing seizure, made by me for violation
of tbe Internal Revenue Laws:
Five gallons peach brandy, one horse, one
male and one wagon, seized from R. M. Hartline,
of Cfatrokte county, Ala.
Any person or persons having any claim
against any of a aid property most come forward
within thirty days and give bond, as required by
law, el-o the same will be sold and the net pro
ceeds deposited to the credit of the Secretary of
the Treasury. ANDREW CLARK,
Collector 2d District of Georgia.
dec29 twli-w2t
1878.
1878.
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FOB 1878
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THE WHI l EJ WATER
FARM, FREIGHT AND SPRING WAGONS!
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1ME5Y,
Rome, Ga.
The above picture r.pruents the medium tile Whitewater Thimble Skein Farm w lm ,
are six sites,with a carrying capacity of from I,M0 to 6,000 pontde. They are io>d with .. ■V®>
Patent Brake, Spring Seat or Feed Box. r
Every wagon ia warranted to be of well-aeaaoned timber, and wall made. If HT .
appear wi'hin one year from rarooaa., reasonable claims for repairs of inch will be allowis* 4
Considering their good qualities, theoe are tbs G -
Cheapest Wagons Ever Offered in "Rome
I have been selling them for five years, and cold over forty in tbe last twelve months.
I Can also Furnish.
Express, Spring, Jersey and Platform
Wagons.
Or, in Fact, Any Kind of Carriage or Buggy a Person May Desirt
Gall at Ramey's Stable, and ase for younelver.
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A woman in Lawrence, Mass., has
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at
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ROME, GEORGIA.
Director! of Georgia Deopartment: A P Allgood, Alfred Shorter, D F Hammond, T HeGiin
C Rowell, D B Hamilton, Cain Glover, J L Camp, T J Williamson, C G Samuel, A B JowtJ
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