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Bill Arp’s Cogitations.
In Which he Plays the Hole ofu Philosopher.
From the Atlanta Oonititution.
When a man begins to turn jailer
and fide like a gum tree in the early
fall he is about the most convenient
thing that a family of girls and boys
with a likely mother can have about
It’s “papa do this,” and,
“papa do that,” or, “wont you put the
children to bed, or wash their little
footay tootsies, or tell em some stories,
or bring a bucket of fresh water,” or do
something or other, all the livelong day
and a good part of the night.
I’m all alone for a season—for the
two little chaps are off at last to the
land of dreams, and the maltese oat is
asleep in the work-baBket, and all the
rest are off on a night’s frolio three
miles away—gone to a little Episcopa
lian dance at a nabor’s, and left me
here like a faithful watch dog to look
after things and take care of the chil
dren and chew the cud of solitude. I
was right proud of om when they got all
fixed up with their best rigging and so
kindly let mo look at em in the parlor
and invited my opinion on tarlton and
muslin and .ribbons and gipsy lace and
jewelry that had gone out of fashion
and come in again three or four times
since it was bought. They looked
splendid, I tell you, conulderin their
diminished chances, and I wouldn’t be
ashamed of em nowhere. Well, I was
invited too, I thought; but it was look
ed upon as a sort of friendly formality
and I soon found out my proper posi
tion was the family convenience on
such occasions, for you know that some
body is just obleeged to stay at home
with the children. One thing about
Moses has always bothered me—how
came him to be called the meekest
man? Didn’t he interfere in a quarrel
and slay an Egyptian ? Didn’t he get
mad and break up the ten command*
ments ? What was he so meek about ?
Root you reckon it was his connubial
discipline—his subdued and accommo
dating disposition in the family circle ?
i re always thought so, and it’s a source
of sympathetic oomfort to mo in my
hours of Bolitude.
Well, I suppose by this time they are
dancing away—that is the young folks
-and my wife, Mrs. Arp, she kesps
ocirawest little foot a patting to the mu-
!! c an j yotoh* 8 all the movement8, and
oy and by she "will consent to take a
lttle saltatory round herself juet to be
oDiiging and make out the sett. It does
■ * ^ood to think what a good old-fasli-
ned time she is having and how it
, «new her youth like the eaguls,
u when she comes home she will kiss
® ee i lln S angels and pat me tenderly
my appreciative jaw and ask if they
j,™ f“y, and was I lonesome, and de-
e they j ust made her dance whether
Ph to or not. Mighty poor
thfim 08 ? c ° nv ict Brother Block with
vml 8 °l of J urorB , aintit? But then
yous e this was an Episcopalian dance
i., transfers the responsibility.
over Sft y- shifts the onus"
ov « onto the bishop.
wh»t T> no 1 ' 8 a 8°°d time to say to you
tim8 t0 . say .° loDg
far-mwot v Juat been perusin in your
‘“out that n v paper another apology
coDiptlr 1 ^ azo ° matter, which you
not a Southern journal—and
apoloimi ag0 , Bome of our editors were
Well t g abou t that Mormon affair,
like nf»u '! a8ent M meek as Moses the
fact I? j! won id make me mad. The
fteyamii?. mad anyhow—who are
wall »W, zIn * to ? Can’t we build a
there no ?" r , State . BOme way ? Is
pie from !!?, . ,H ee P impertinent peo-
°or Driv«y er °2) t,n anc * interferin with
howlin g- a , ffairB? What’s them
quarrel ? w 08 ^* got to do with our
ocratio ' 8 can ’t have a little Domo-
a eainst 1 m Pl . nor a littla suspicion
bond Mom? l0 *d er > n °i kill a vaga-
in the w°nnd 0D v. nor dad a dead nigger
sanctity,i s !., ut what five hundred
stunnn editors get on a Radical
told you an b “I a horn—“toot, toot, we
rebels^’. r “ fflans . banditti-Ku-klux
Impudence of tkn t, *L'"°'°- t '” Wby > tbe
f was *n » . e ., t ¥ n K 18 exa8peratin.
■o retaliate in kind it would
take every column in every paper in
the land to keep up with em, audit
would be “toot, toot” all the time with
out any recess for dinner.
And yet some of the milky editors
sorter want to explain and apologize
and put on penitential airs as though
there was somebody away off who had
a right to hold us responsible for our
conduct. Well, it’s none of their fuss
nor funeral. We live in a suvrin State,
we do, and are runnin our own ma-
sheen. They sent a horde of hubgry
devils down here and the military to
baok em to plunder and humiliate our
people, and took sides with the nigger
and made a fool of him, and some of
our own people were mean enough to
follow their example, and run for of
fice on the strength of the nigger vote,
and are keeping up the' fuss and the
strife between the races, and if one of
em happens to be killed its just awful,
horrible, terrible—“toot, toot tooooot.”
Well, its a wonder to me and Mr. Beech
er that all of em havent been killed.
He says that we have borne more op
pression since the war than any people
ever bore since the world was made, and
we are bearin it yet, but I want them
slanderin Rads to know we dont apol
ogize to them for nothin, and we aint
no more afraid of the next war than
they are. Conding em, what have they
got to do with us anyhow ? Are they
our parents or brothers or sisters or
uncles or aunts or cousins or guardeens
or school teachers or trustees or next
friends ? Have they got any interest
in our estate, or are they concerned about
our immortal souls, or thinking about
moving down here to live with us that
makes em take such a lively interest in
our affairs ? Well, they needent come.
We can populate this country fast
enough without any Mormons or Conk-
lings to help us.
No, sir, they are just howling to have
them 5,000 supervisors and 11,000 dep
uty marshals put in office again at the
next election. Its just as Ben Hill says.
It aint finance, nor who Bhall be the
next Governor, nor Independent candi
dates, nor a little split up in the State,
lolitics thats the momentous question,'
>ut its freedom and State rights against
federalism and the military. Thats
whats the matter. Yours,
Bill Arp.
Discovery of Silk and Satin.
The discovery of silk is attributed to
one of the wives of the Emperor of
China, Hoang-ti, who reigned about
two thousand years before the Christian
era; and since that time a special spot
has always been allotted in the gardens
of the Chinese royal palace to the culti
vation of the mulberry tree—called in
Chinese the golden tree—and to the
keeping of silk worms. The first silk
dress mentioned in history was made
not for a sovereign nor a pretty woman,
but for the monster in human shape,
Heliogabalus.
. Persian monks who came to Constan
tinople revealed to the Emperer Jus
tinian the seoret of the production of
silk, and gave him some silk worms.
From Greece the art passed into Italy
the end of the' thirteenth century.
When the Pope left Rome to settle at
Avignon, France, they introduced into
that country the secret which had been
kept by the Italians; and then Louis
Xl. established at lours a manufactory
of silk fabrics. Francis I. founded the
Lyons silk works, which to this day
have kept the first rank. Henry II. of
Franco wore the first pair of silk hose
ever made, at the wedding of his sister.
The word “satin,” which in the orig
inal was applied to all silk stuffs in
general, has since the last century been
used to designate only tissues which
present a lustered surface. The discov
ery of this particularly brilliant stuff
was accidental. Octavio Mai, a silk
weaver, finding business very dull, and
not knowing what to-invent to give a
new impulse to the trade, was one day
lacing to and fro before his loom.
Svery time he passed the machine, with
no definite object in view, he pulled
little threads from the warp, and put
them in his mouth, whinh soon after he
spat out. Later on, he found the little
ball of silk on the floor of his work
shop, and was attracted by the brilliant
appearance of the threads. He repeated
the experiment, and, by using heat and
mucilaginous preparations, succeeded
in giving new luster to his tissues.
Something Worth Knowing.
Every little while we read in the pa
pers of some one who has stuck a ru9ty
nail in his foot; or knee or hand, or
some other portion of his body, and that
look-jaw resulted therefrom, of which
the patient died. If every person was
aware of a perfect remedy for all such
wounds, and would apply it, then all
such reports must cease. But although
we can give the remedy, we cannot en
force its application. Some will not
employ it because they think it too
simple; others will have no faith iu it
when they read it; while others think
such a wound of small account and not
worth fussing over until it is too late to
do any good. Yet all such wounds
can be healed without the fatal conse
quences which follow them. The rem
edy is simple, almost always on hand,
and can be applied by any one, and,
what is better, it is infallible. It is
simply to smoke the wound, or any
bruiso or wound that is inflamed, with
burning wool or woolen cloth. Twenty
minutes in the smoke of wool will take
the pain out of the worst wound; re
peated two or three times, it will allay
the worst cases of inflammation arising
from a wound. People may sneer at
"the old man’s remedy” a3 much aB
they please, but when they are af
flicted just let them try it. _ It has
saved many lives and mach pain, and
is worthy of being printed in letters of
gold and put in every home.
Since Secretary Sherman has been in
Ohio, participating in the political can
vass in that State, he has been kept
quite busy answering oharges and ad'
verse critioisms. His reply to the striO'
ture of the New York Times in relation
to the extension of the time for the pay
ment of the subscriptions to the four
per cent, loan, while deolaring in Maine
that the loan was closed, did not meet
with implicit acceptance in the Eastern
cities, and now he is explaining away
the charges brought against him by
other Republicans of appointing ex-
Confederates to office. Of the persons
whose names were given as holding
such appointmente some, he declared,
were appointed by Gen. Grant, and
others he justified because they were
now acting with the Republican party.
With respect to his discharge of Union
soldiers, be said that none were dis
missed except for cause; and to a fox'
ther charge that his own relatives held
places under the Government, he re
plied that he had not himself appointed
any one of them since he took office.
The fact that Secretary Sherman has
been forced so early in his candidature
for the Presidency to meet the criticism
and accusations of members of his own
party would seem to indicate that he
has a hard road to travel before he at
tains the object of his ambition, if he
succeeds in getting it at all.
“The mills of the gods grind slow
ly.” This is all because the.bands Are
paid by the day, Will the gods never
learn that it is to their interest to
out work by contract.
Change is found in every thing except
an editor’s pocket.
The Rich California Banker.
When it became known that one of
the richest California bankers had left
the Pacifio Coast and transferred his
base ef operations to the New York
Stock Exohange, all the shrewd finan
ciers watched his course with keen in
terest to see how he would succeed
The result has emphatically proved the
wealthy banker’s sagacity. Besides
having a much wider and more promis
ing field to operate in, he is known to
have been in several stock combinations
that paid immense profits. By the
combination method of operating iu
stock Messrs. Lawrence & Co., Bankers,
N. Y., unite orders of thousands of cus
tomers, in different Bums, into one vast
capital, and operate them as a mighty
whole, dividing profits pro rata among
shareholders every 30 days. Capital in
any amount from $10 to $100,000 can
be used with great success iu these
>ools. $25 would pay 8100 profit.
1500 would make $5,000 or 10 per cent,
on the stock during the month. Messrs,
Lawrence & Co.’s new circular (mailed
free) gives “two unerring rules for suc
cess,” and full particulars, so that any
one can operate in stocks, and make
money. Stocks and bonds wanted.
Government bonds supplied. Apply
to Lawrence & Co., Bankers, 57 Ex
ohange Place, N. Y.
The American Agriculturist has a few
words to say in favor of fruit eating, as
follows: “The liberal use of the various
fruits as food is conducive to good
health. Fruit is not a solid and lasting
aliment like beef and bread, as it is
of water and contains
(yticura
BLOOD AND SKIN HUMORS
Speedily, Permanently and Economically
Cured by the Cutlcura Remedies when
all other known medicines and
methods of treatment flail.
Scrofulous Uloert and Soros, Abscesses, Milk
Lee, Favor Sores, Erysipelas Sores, Old Bores
and Discharging Wounds, Bolls, Carbuncles and
Blood Impurities, whloh manifest thomsolvcs by
bursting through the skin and eating deep into
the flesh, when treated Internally by the Cuti-
ouiu Resolvent and externally with the Oon-
cora and Cdticbra Soap, rapidly heal and die-
appear. Salt Rheum or Eeseraa, Tetter, Ring
worm, Psoriasis, Leprosy, Barbels Itch and ail
Soaly and Itching Eruptions of the Skin | Scald
Head, Dandruff and all Irritating and Itching
Humors of the Scalp, which cause the Hair to
become dry, thin and lileless, and result in Pro.
mature Baldness, are permanently cured by the
Cdticdra Remedies.
SKIN DISEASE.
A Remarkable Letter from J. A. Tucker,
Esq., manufacturer of the Hay
State Superphosphate.
Messrs. Weeks and Potter; Qentlemen — I
think I have paid for medicines and raodioal
treatment during the last twenty years all of
thru thousand dollars, without receiving any
permanent relief.
. Last May, while taking a Turkish bath at 17
Beaeon St., a yonng man employed there by the
name of Wm. Oorbott induced me to allow him
to apply a preparation that he had upon me,
assuring me thst it was perfectly harmless, and
for a certain consideration he wonld cure me
within thirty days irons the time he eommeneed.
In oase he failed to da so I was to pay him no
thing. I consented and he applied it nearly
every day for five weeks, when the disease en
tirely disappeared. I very cheerfully paid him
the amonnt agreed npon, and then asked him
what this remedy was, and he replied that it
was no other than Cdticdra.
Since that time I have had no trouble from
this disease, and have not had such good health
in twonty years ns I have had during the last
six months.
I have eineo my recovery bought Cutioura and
given It to friends anffering with skin diseases,
and in every inetance it has onred them. I be
lieve it to be the greatest discovery of thepres-
ent century. J. A. TUCKER.
IS Donne St.; Boston, Dse. 20, 1878.
Hon.—Mr. Tucker is a well known eltisen
and has served the eity in many important ca
pacities. Ho is at present a member of the
Board of Aldermen. Ho is also well known to
agriculturists and farmers as the manufacturer
of the celebrated Bay State Superphosphate.
“P. O. P.”
“Pill of Perfection.” It Is a hard “Pill” for the
Old-Time Sewing Machine Companies to talee, hut
when the WHITE 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 White Machines, neither can you buy a
White on two or 'three years time. They are sold for
Cash, or on short time, at lowest possible price. They
are so constructed that Ihc Lost Motion In all the
wearing parts caused from long and constant use can
be talcen up by the simple turning of a screw, there
fore they are obliged to outlast any other Machine
not provided with this necessary device,
Statements of Agents of other Maohines to the Contrary Notwithstanding.
They ltavo more space tinder the arm, and are tlio lightest running
Machine made. Therefore pay no attention to what others say hut try
them yourself and buy the White if you vvnnt the best. For sale by
jut 24 twwtl
E. O. HOUGH, Rome, Ga.
1879. SPRING & SUMMER TRADE. 1879.
New Goods! Fine Goods!
MRS. T. B. WILLIAMS,
M ILLIKTER,
No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
T H . AN £ ma . M Y MANY CUSTOMERS FOR THE LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME
. g * n v® * , ftm proud to say that 1 am bettor prepared to attond to tholr wants than ever
tKjforo. I have now in ftore and to arrivo Bonnots, Hat*, Flowers, Plumes, Silks, Velvets, Plushes,
Ribbons, Ornaments, Hair Goods, Zephyrs, Combs, Notions, etc., etc., whinh I have soleotod in
person in tho Northern markets. My Goods are in tho Latest Styles, and I have my Trimming
dono with good material by experienced milliners. Call and examine my goods and got iny prices
Jhosing elsewhere. (ootfltwVrtf
before purch
CUTICURA REMEDIES
Have done for me what hundreds of dollars
spent on other roraedlcs have failed to do, and I
do not hesitate to recommend them at first-class
articles. Yours truly,
MARK BRANNAN.
Carbondale, Pa., Dec. 20, 1878.
Skis and Scalp Diseases should be treated ex
ternally with Cdtiodba, usistod by the Ooticora
Soap, and Ribolveet taken internally, until
cured and for tome time afterward. Where the
Humors are oonllned to the Blood and da not
show themselves on the surface, the Resolves?
alone will speedily drive them from the system.
The Cdticdra Remedies infallibly cure tho most
loathsome cotes of Serofnlout and Skin and
Scalp Humors, os is attested by hundreds of
unsolicited testimonials in onr possession.
Prepared by Weeks A Potter, Chemists and
Druggists, 360 Washington Street, Boston, Matt.,
and for sale by all Druggists and Dealers. Prioe
of Cuticdra, small boxes, 60 cents; Urge boxes
eonUining two and one-half times the quantity
of small, $1. Resolvent, $1 per bottle. Cort-
cura Soap, 26 cents per cake; by mail, 30 eents;
■ cakes. 76 cents.
Ales Weary sufferer from Rheu-
GUbunsf mutism, Neuralgia, Weak
VOLTAIC ELECTRIC and Bore Lungs, Coughs and
b, .TTrOll Colds, Weak Book, Weak
Stomaoh and Bowels, Dyt-
posia, Female Weakness, Shooting Paint through
he Loins and Book, try these Plasters. Placed
over the Pit of the Stomaoh, they present and
cure Ague Fains, Bilious Colie, Liver Oomplaints
and proteot the system from a thousand ills.
aug7twwlm
very little nitrogen. It does not give
strength to any great extent, and cannot
be used for a very long time alone.
But fruit contains those noids which
both refresh and give tone to the system
during the season when it is most need
ed, are agreeable to the palate and val
uable in their cooling and health-giving
effect. During warm weather eat a
plenty of fruit, provided, of course, that
it iB always thoroughly ripe and as
freshly gathered as is possible).
Memphis, Aug. 30.—There has been
but little change in the weather, it still
remaining mild and pleasant.
The total yellow fever death list since
the fever began is 280. It iB now strik
ing the benevolent societies pretty
heavy. The Knights of Honor buried
10 members and in all—which includes
members and their familes—22. The
Odd Fellows have had 55. sick, includ
ing members and families. Of these
14 died, 10 are under treatment and 31
have been cured.
There is no higher tribute paid to
Christianity than that which comes
from its enemies. The phariseeB of a
few secular papers pick up every in
stance of failure on the part of proles
sors to walk worthy of their high voca
tion, and then tell us that Christianity
is most admirable in itself, but that the
churches are corrupt, because some of
their members are proven to be bad!
What is this but a confession that a con
sistent Christian is the highest style of
of man.—Christian Intelligencer.
One of the best known girls in Pitts
burg is Allie Ghany, but water mouth
she nas!
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WHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS,
BROAD STREET, ROME, GA.
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COMMON SENSE VIEWS
FOREIGN LANDS.
BY M. DWINELL.
T ilts VOLUME, OF FOUR HUNDRED
Pages, now ready for sals, it well printed
on good paper and neatly bound in muslin.
It embraces a series ef Letters written frem
the most interesting eitlea of Southern Europo;
from Alexandria, Cairo and the Pyramid!, in
Egypt; from Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem,Beth
any, Mount of Olives, Jerioho, River Jordan,
Dead Sea, io., In Palsstlne; Smyrna and Am
eient Ephesus, in Syria; from Constantinople,
Vienna, Switserland, Ao., in Europe. Alto,
series from the Western part of America, from
Omaha to San Franoieeo and including a visit to
the famoue Yosomito Falls.
This Volume will be sent by mall, free ef
postage, on receipt of $1.60. Address Courier
Office, Rome, Go., or it ean be bought at tha
Book Stores.
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This is a Prompt and Certain Cure for all Diseases of the Liver,
Such as Dyspepsia, Headache, Chills and Fever, &c,
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY CA8E, OR MONEY RETURNED.
FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS GENERALLY.
J. a. YEISER,
Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Garden Seeds, &o.,
r» m TI TIM. , , _ _ , ^ sole Proprietor, Rome, Ua.
R. T. Hoyt, Wholesale and Retail Agent for Rome, Ga.
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H. D. COTHRAN
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Wholesale Druggists,
HOME, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OP
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INCLUDING CLOVED, TIMOTHY, UEMIS’, BLUE AND OHCITARD
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