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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, > 7- J 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. THE Atlanta Constitution FOB 1878 W ILL MAINTAIN THE REPUTATION IT has already won as THE LEADING SOUTHERN DAILY. The particular features which have given it a popularity that might almost be termed special will not only be continued, but such improve ments made as will give additional seat, vivacity and brilliancy to its colnmns. In THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT all the topics of the time will candidly, care- lolly and thoroughly be disenssed, but not to the extent of tediousness. The political * leader" will be happily relieved by light and pleasing essays upon social and literary themes, and by piquant paragraphical comments upon current events. THE LATEST NEWS. THE WHI l EJ WATER FARM, FREIGHT AND SPRING WAGONS! i ' Mu 0 % QD For- Sale *>y 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. WM. RAMEY. The enterprise of Thi Constitute* in gather ing and placing before its renders the latest and freshest intelligence from nil parts of the w^rld, which haa been frequently illustrated of late on special occasions, when events of absorb- ing public interest were transpiring, and which has been made the subject ol congratulatory comment by both press and people, will suffer no abatement. The natural advantages of the location of Th* Constitution at the political, commercial and news center ol tbe State, together with tbe special facilities that are the outgrowth of energy, experience and ample resources, will all be utilized lor the benefit of its readers. Ita dispatches are fuperior to those of any daily newspaper south of Naahville, and its news is fuller and fresher. Iu this respect Tax Consti tution has NO RIVAL IN GEORGIA. It will be the aim of the editors in future, it has been in the past, to make their paper evert respect a reflex of Georgia's progress and Georgia's greatness, and a faithtul, vigorous and unswerving champion of Georgia's interests. 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The terms of subscription are as follows: Daily Constitution one year, $10 00 : six mon bs $5 CO. W,ekly Constitution one year, $2 00 ; aix months, $1 00. Alwavs payable in advance. Address THE CONSTITUTION. dec25,t-*'2w Atlanta, Ga. LEGAL BLANKS EVERY F o r DESCRIPTION Sale AT THE OFFICE OF The Rome Courier Thirty Texas papers have died with in the last twelve months, and sixty new ones sprang into existence during the same time. Prof. Huxley says of “bores” that the particular species of the genus known as the “education bore” is the worst of all. A woman in Lawrence, Mass., has been sentenced to two year’s imprison ment as a common drunkard. James Gordon Bennett is reported to be engaged to a handsome y onng French Countess residing is Paris. The oldest ex-member of Congress now living is the Hon. Arteznus Hale, of Bridgewater, Mass. He is 95. Five clergymen are convicts in the Kentucky penitentiary. Three are ne groes. t “Misery loves company.” So does a marriageable young lady. 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