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General James Oglethorpe.
Our readers will remember that a few
days ago, upon motion of Hon. Benj. C.
Yancey, the Legislature adopted a reso
lution naming Gen. Oglethorpe and Dr.
Crawford Long as the two Georgians
whose statues should be placed in the
national gallery of art at Washington,
where two men of each State done in
marble shall have niches in the wall.
We understand that Mr. Stephens is
hacking this movement, and it is more
than probable that the statues will be
made and placed as suggested.
We all know about the life and ser
vices of Dr. Long, but it may not be
amiss to freshen public recollection
as to Gen. Oglethorpe. This old vet
eran was no ordinary man. He came
to this country at the head of a band of
about 700 emigrants, and, after coast
ing from above where Charleston now
stands to near Savannah, went up the
river and settled at the city of Savan
null. This was in 1723.
The young leader, who was of high
birth and fame in the old country, Pad
the most desperate struggles to sustain
his little colony against the Spaniards.
After several months of obstinate work,
he succeeded in quieting things, and
ljyed.for many years among the people,
greatly beloved. He went to England
once to answer charges on which he
was threatened with court-martial. He
was so triumphantly acquitted that his
accuser was dismissed from {he army.
General Oglethorpe finally beoame the
second in rank in the royal army in
America, General Gage ranking him
After Gen. Gage left this country Gen
Oglethorpe was sent for and was offered
the command in America.
He stated very frankly to the minis
try that the administration had not
been euoh as was proposed, aud insisted
that the colonists must be met in a spir
it of absolute kindness .and fairness.
He laid down a programme and stated
that he would accept the command if
this policy towards the colonists was
adopted. The ministry declined to
make any such pledge, and Oglethorpe
refused command of tho army, saying
that he would not 1)6 the instrument of
repression towards the Americans. He
returned to England. Gen. Howe was
given command. The revolution speed-
[• followed, and when Mr. A.damswent
to r.ngland after our independence had
oeen established, the first man to greet
™> was the old hero, Gen. Oglethorpe.
•*e expressed great satisfaction at the
result, and said that the people of
America were entitled to their freedom
neciied two years after the war of the
evolution closed, full of honors and
ontentmoixt. There is no man whose
| «uoGeogia should be more proud to
Landing in the gallery that is to
established at Washington.—Atlanta
* 'institution.
on Chattanooga.
A Mempbis. refugee oarae through on
"J® m Phis aud Charleston railroad
Wank ,i 8 ! Ven l n 8> an ‘l was stoppod at
Ch.ii. h le » l h 0 quarantine station for
oulr oga -J hero * 10 was met by the
villi™ 11 ", ,°®cers of that enterprising
inssoni A , ter h 0 had been thoroughly
■■K’ ‘he refugee remarked:
C'ino^a? ™ l3ter ’ d0 y ° U Hve in
“wYi' B ?'d the of hcer.
•kat d-d town?'- Pr0<5 ° BO l ° 8t01) ’
4X r; » we propoBe to see that y° u
elaS'i’ ^marked to refugee , “J
speii ofVv. at ' n Would 118 B00n have
that bu,? 6 ? ellow fever as to stop
at ths ,1. , want to go through there
with ii, 6 of twenty-five miles an hour,
hohl Jt oar ffl ?dowg down, and I wil
vi Te a^ y n ?» 03 x th ®“’ A ma « may
ho, >f inCU^ 0fyellow fever ’ but
Chattanooga is oertain dea
bundrJ?l d tbat there are about three
,w ‘onenr y ^ ng n ) en in Durham, N. O.,
lltc atv-nr,o 0ln bnB r8a ohed the age of
there y n?u y® 418 , or who waa born
who u ere l 4 nota citizen in Durham
horn in the place.
Young Louis Napoleon’s Trage
dy On the Boards of a Ger
man Theater.
Now York Evenlhg Post.]
t A drama entitled “The piince impe
rial” is now piling at Posen, iu Prussia.
Scene I. is at Ohiselhnrst. The Prince
is thinking of revenge. He talkB of
the mitrailleuses of Forbach and the
bullets that he picked up on the
field of battle. What a ohasm between
yesterday and to-day! A Bonapartist
delegation is announced. It comes to
ask him to sail from France, and to is-
buo a manifesto to the nation and an
appeal to arms in his behalf. But the
Prince, who loves his country, does not
wish to excite a civil war. He refuses.
Scene II.—Tho daughter of tho for
ester. The Prince loves passionately
a poor young girl. The Empress sur
prises him at a rendezvous. Pathetic
scene between the mother and the son
and the girl. The last-named, at the
prayer of the Empress, forbids tho
Prince te oome again. The Prince, in
despair, swears that he will go and kill
himself.
Scene III.—The English camp at the
Cape. The Prince, more in love than
ever, wishes to die. He asks the Gen
eral to let' him make a reconnoisance.
Before mounting his horse he writes to
his mother and to the forester’s daughter.
(Tremolo accompaniment.)
Scone IV.—The Zulus. The recon
noisance ; the repose of the horsemen;
a 'soldier’s song. All at onoe a ory,
“The Zulus 1” The English save them
selves (they are hooted at each night
bjr the audience). The Prince defends
himself courageously, thinking of his
mother and of the. forester’s daughter.
:ds seen here—perhaps for the jj e ,j; e8i
that flying is difficulty the light Scene’V.—The. return to England.
The Empress, in mourning, kneels be
fore the pioture of Napoleon III. The
coffin is borne to Chiselhurat. (Grand
scene of tears.) Suddenly enters the
forester’s daughter. “I promised your
Majesty hp more to see the Prince, she
says. “I have kept my word. But
your Majesty will not forbid my sajing
a last adieu to Louis?”
Some of the Effects of Altitude
in Leadvillo.
Leadvillo Letter.
I saw but very few oases of intoxica
tion in the streets, though the three
hundred saloons in the city holdout
their best inducements. I was sur
prised at this os one of the notable ef
fects of the great altitude of the place
(10,300 feet above the level of the sea)
is that all fermented liquors intoxioate
more quickly than at lower elevations.
The boiling point, owing to the decrease
of atmospheiic pressure, is much lower
than at Chicago, and the alcohol is
sooner vaporized and taken into the
oirculatiion much quicker.
The boiling point of water here is
about 190 degrees instead of 212 de
grees, the effect of which in boiling
beans, eggs, potatoes, eto., is that it re
quires a longer while to cook them In
an open vessel, and it is necessary to
keep the pot well covered or the water
II vaporize and escape before being
raised to the requisite degree for thor
ough cooking. At this elevation much
air is required to fill and satisfy the
lungs, and breathing must be quicker
in order to properly oxygenize the
blood. It is said, too, that after one
has been here for some time the color
ing matter of the blood becomes dark
er, being changed from the peroxide to
the sesquioxide of iron. With a person
suffering under any difficulty or dis
ease of the heart, the effect of any long-
continucd exertion is to cause a danger
ous degree of palpitation, and even with
piersons entirely well the pulse runB ex
tremely high.
There are other and notable facts con
nected with this altitude. There are
few birds seen here—perhaps for the
reason
air. The common house-fly,-) the sum
mer pest of our Eastern house-keepers,
unknown here. There are some of
the out-door bluebottle variety, but
they seem languid and tired. It is
ia,$uo,ti ■■= ■
.thftt cats cannot live here.
This is probably owing to their delicate
organization being unable' to resist the
' ;or of the night air, So the “voices
__ the night” are not heard in this local
ity, and bootjacks are reserved for their
natural uses.
Another result of the lightness of the
air is that, having so little density, it ia
easily heated by artificial means. Our
nights are uniformly cold—so cold that
it is Uncomfortable to sit without a fire;
but a few pina chipa or small sticks
will warm an apartment very, quiakly.
At the Bamo time the sun’s rays do not
Beem to have the heating power that
they do in lower elevations. This seems
to confirm the theory that there is no
substantial caloric in the rays of the
sun, but that heat is the result of chem
ical aotiou, generated by the direct rays
with the elements of the atmosphere—
the directness of the rays and the densi
ty of the atmosphere. While standing
high upon these mountains, even st a
distance from any snow-drifts and
where the air is still, the summer sun
hn3 only tho power to make the air re
freshing and pleasant, while you on the
jlains are sweltering under a torrid
lent. In the shade of a rock or two it
is always cool enough.
The effect of the altitude is the same
as that experienced by balloonists, who
iu ascending from the surfaoo of the
earth, even on the hottest day, soon
find it necessary to don their overcoats
and warmest clothing. In tho night,
here, a good supply of blankets is al
ways necessary; and nearly every morn
ing heavy frosts are found, and some
times thick scales of ice are formed. The
crests of some of the mountains and
many of the deep ravines upon their
sides are still full of masses of snow so
compact that one can walk over them
without sinking. A day or two ago, in
visiting a mine close to the summit oi
Mount Bross, I was compelled to cross
a field of snow, hanging over the edge
which must have been a mile in length
and probably in plnceB twenty-five feet
in depth. ^
The
icura
A Wise Legislator.
He is successful because he has the
manly courage to rise above all person
al motives or interests and oast his vote
and influence on the side of measures
which will contribute to the well-being
of his fellow-men. The good of the
many, even though it proves injurious
to the interests of the few, is the maxim
of the wise legislator. But certain men
will never admit the wisdom of this doc-
trine, any more than some selfish private
practitioners will adrait_the *“P® rla ^f
value of Dr. Pieroe’s Golden Medical
Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pel
lets, because these remedies have in
jured their practice. Of course, no man
in his right senses will P a Y a I’ h y a i c * an
$5.00 for a consultation, a bottle of bit
ters, a few powders, ana a prescription,
when one bottle of Dr. PiercesGoldcn
Medical Discovery and a bottle of bis
Pleasant Purgative Pellets, both costing
but $1.25, will accomplish the same re
sult, viz: cleanse the liver and blood
regulate and tone the stomach, and itn
parta healthful action to the bowels
and kidneys.
sajing
m press
draws the young girl to her heart, and
replies* “Mnm too will nnitA in
prayer.
Scarcely hnvo the Empress and the
young girl bent their knees when the
coffin, by the aid of mechanism like
that in the nun scene in “Robert le
Diablo,” stands up on end, and through
the glass lid the audience sees the body
of the Prince Imperial. ThiB termina
tion of the play produces a “grand
emotional effect.”
The New Stock Speculations.
The new combination method of op
erating in stocks which Messrs. Law
rence & Co., Bankers, N. Y., have inau
gurated, is attracting unusual attention
in financial circles, by reason of its re
markable success. A customer in
Providence, invested nine times, and
made over $5,000 in three months, by
using from $50 to $500 capital. By
this system, orders from thousands of
customers, in various sums, are pooled
into one immense capital,.and operated
as a mighty whole, thus giving to each
shareholder all the advantages of vast
capital and shrewdest skill. Profits are
divided every 30 days. Any amount
from $10 to i 75,000 can be used in
Messrs. Lawrence & Co.’s combinations
with equal proportionate success. $15
will make $75 profit in the month.
$200 will return $1,600, or 8 per cent,
on the stock, and so on as the market
varies. The new circular gives “two
unerring rules for success,” and shows
how any one can operate profitably.
Mailed free. Stocks and bonds wanted.
Government bonds suppiid. Apply to
Lawrence & Co., Bankers, 57 Exchange
Place, N. Y.
Washington, August 25.—Secretary
Sherman has determined to send to
Congress immediately on its convening
the correspondence regarding the failure
of the pet New York banks io pay for
the thirty-odd million dollars of bonds
when they became due, August 17. The
Secretary fears an investigation by Con
fess, and hopss to break the force of it
jy sending in the correspondence. This
will hardly stop the investigation, how
ever, as it is known that other evidence
can be secured, showing the real nature
of his favors to these banks. Treasurer
Gilfillan, who was going about the col
lection of the money in a business-like
way when stopped by Sherman, will tell
tho truth if summoned before a com
mittee. It is said that a thorough in
vestigation of the transaction will also
disclose the sources from which came
much of the financial aid to Foster’s
campaign in Ohio.
BLOOD AND SKIN HUMORS
Speedily, Permanently and Economically
Cured by tbe Cuttcura Remedies when
nil other Known medicines and
methods of treatment fall.
Scrofulous Ulcer, and Sorca, Abacoaies, Milk
Lae, Fever Sore., Eryalpelae Sores. Old Sores
and Discharging Wound*, Boll., Carbuncles and
Blood Impuritlos, which manifest themselves by
bursting through the skin and eattng deep into
the flash, when treated internally by Jho Co-h
our. Resolvent and externally with the Cuti-
cura and Cutichra Soap, rapidly heal and dis
appear. Salt Rheum or Ecsema, Tetter, Ring
worm, Psoriasis, Leprosy, Barber’s Itch and all'
Boaly and Itching Eruptions of the Skin | Scald
Head, Dandruff and all Irritating and Itching
Humorc of tho Scalp, whieh oauie the Hair to
become dry, thin and lifeless, and result in Pro
mature Baldness, are permanently cured by the
Cuticdra Rnuinias.
skin Mease.
A Kemnrkable Letter from J. A. Tucker,
Esq , manufacturer of the liny
State Superphosphate. .
Messrs. Weaks and Potter; Gentlemen — I
think I hays paid tor medicines and ruediosl
treatment during tho lost twenty years a'l of
three thousand dollars, without receiving any
permanent relief.
Last May, while taking a Turkish bath at 17
Brecon St., a young man employed thoro by the
name of Wm. Corbett Induoed me to allow him
to apply a preparation that he had upon me,
assuring ms that It was nsrfeetly harmless, and
for a oertain consideration he would onto kno
within thirty days lrom the time he eommenotd.
In ease he failed to do'so I was to pay him no
thing. I consented and he applied it noarly
every day for five weeks, when the dlaoase en
tirely disappeared. I Very cheerfully paid hint
the amount agreed upon, and then aekol him
what this remedy Vad, and be replied that It
was no othor than Cdtiodba.
Slnee that time I. have had no trouble from
this disease, and'hdre hot had suoh good hoalth
In twenty years as I havo had during tha last
six months.
I havo slnoe my recovery bought Cuticuba and,
given it to friends suffering with skin diseases,
and in every fnstatfee It has cured them. I bo-
lleve it to bo the.greatoit discovery of tbopri
out oentury. -7. A. TUCKER.
IS Donne St., Boston, Deo. 20, 1878.
Norn.—Mr. Tuoker Is a well known oltieon
and has served the olty in many Important oa
S eeltics. Ho Is at present a member of the
oard of Aldermen. He ie also well known to
agrioulturUte and farm:ra as the manufacturer
of the celebrated Bay State Superphosphate.
CUTICURAREMEDIES
Have done for me what bundroda of dollars
spent on other remedies havo failed to do, and I
do not hesitate to recommend them as first-class
articles. Yours truly,
MARK BRANNAN.
Carbondale, Pa, Dee. 20, 1878,
R. T. HOYT.
II. D. COTIIRAN
HOYT & COTHRAN,
Wholesale Druggists,
ROME, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A OAR LOAD OF
GRASS AND FIELD SEEEDS,
INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD
GRASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (and Oats to arrive.)
Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures.
Jul 10 tw wtf
ALLEN & McOSKER
ARE NOW RECEIVING A LARGE & SPLENDID
STOCK OF THE
LATEST STYLES OF JEWELRY,
BRIDAL PRESENTS,
Engagement Bings,
Solid Silver & Plated Ware.
AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED PERFECTED SPECTACLES.
{^Personal attention paid to Repairing Watches, Clocks, Chronometers and Jewolry.
All kinds of Jewelry made to ordor. (eprSO.tw-wtf
“P. O. F\”
Skin and Saalp Dieeaaes should be treated* ex
ternally with Cotiouiu, aasistod by tho Cuncuna
Soar, rnd Resolvent takea internally, until
eured and for some time afterwart. Whore tho
Hnmorc are confined to tho Blood and da not
show thomaelvee on the surface, the Resolvent
alono will speedily drive them from tho system.
Tho Coticure Remedies Infallibly cure tho moat
loathsomo oeica of Scrofulous and Skin and
Scalp Humors, es is attested by hundreds of
lsollclted testimonials in our porsetslon.
Prepared by Weeks A Potter, Chomists and
Druggiets, 300 Waahlngton Street, Boston, Mass,,
and lor sale by all Druggists and Dealers. Prioo
of CuTicnRA, email boxes, 60 cents; large boxes
containing two and one-half times tbe quantity
of small, $1. Resolvent, $1 nor Inttlo. Cnri-
cura Soap, 25-cnnts p-r cake; by mall, 30 cents;
oakss, 75 conts.
COLLINs*
VOLTAIC BeUCTHO and Soro Lung*, I
New Orleans,n-s— --- , —,
Democratic Convention will be held at
Baton Kouge on the first Monday in
October to nominate officers. _
The Republican State Central tom
mittee resolved to call aOonvention n
Now Orleans, October 20th, to nomi
nate A regular State ticket. A -
tlon was offered endorsing Grant foi the
Presidency.
i.—The State
Woary sufferer from Rheu
matism, Neuralgia, Weak
and Soro Lunge, Coughs and
to, . Colds, Weak Baok, Weak
**^t ST UP’ Stomach and Bowels, Dyt-
pcsia, Fomalo Weakness, Shooting Pains through
,ho Loins and Back, try these Plastors. Plorod
over the Pit of tho Stomach, they praveat and
ouro Ague Paine, Bilious Colic, Liver Complaints
abd proleot the system from a thousand
angTtwwlra
■“The sending of any more Southern
negroes to Kansas at present will not
only be a cruelty to them, but a griev
ous burden to the white community,
says Gov. St. John. The man who ut
ters this sentiment was one.of the loud
est advocates of the exodus, and his en
couragement probably did as much as
all things else to promote it. His sud
den conversion to the opposite view is a
most eloquent argument against the
whole movement. It was founded in
fraud, and the folly of the victims has
resulted in much suffering. All the
facts go to show that Gov, St. Johnonly; ,-
tells the truth when ho says that tho WILL oivuu
sending of any m»n- " ( ’g rot " to K;ulH . a: ’
will bo a cruelty , to them.—Now Or
leans Democrat.
“Vttl of Perfection.” It U a hard “Pill" for the
Old-Time Sewing Machine Companies to talic, hut
when the If'IIJl'E MACHINE comes in direct Com
petition with them they are obliged to haul in their
old Machines. They don’t find any second hand,
made over lVhite Machines, neither can you buy a
White on two or thrco years time. They are sold for
Cash, or on short time, at lowest possible price. They
are so constructed that the Lost Motion in oil the
wearing parts caused from long and constant use can
be talcen up by the simple turning of a screiu, there*
fore they are obliged to .outlast any other Machine
not provided with, this necessary device,
Statements of Agents of other Machines to the Contrary Noth with standing,
They have more space under the arm, and are the lightest running
Machine made. Therefore pay no attention to what others say, but try
them yourself and buy tho White if you want tho best. For sale by
jui24 twwtt * El. C. HOUGH, Rome, Ga.
COMMON SENSE VIEWS
FOREIGN LANDS.
BY M. DWINELL.
T his volume, op four hundred
Pages, now ready for sate, is wall printed
on good paper end neatly bound In muslin.
It embraces a eerlos of Letters wrltton from
the most Interesting cities of Southern Europo
ftom Alexandria, Cairo and the Pyramids, In
Egypt; from Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beth,
any, Mount tof' 01 Ives, Jericho, River Jordan,
Dead Sea, Ae, In Paleatine; Smyrna and An
cient Ephesui, in Syria; from Constantinople,
Vienna, Switkerland, Ac., in Europe. Also,
series from tho Weaterc part of America, from
Omaha to San Kranciico and Including a vi.it to
tbe famous Yosemlte Falls.
This Volumo will ho aont by mall, (reo of j
postago, on receipt of $1.50. Address Courikb I
Offloo, Romo, Ga., or it nan bo bought at tho
Book Rtorei:
1879. SPRING & SUMMER TRADE. 1879.
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