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M p WIN ELL, PROPRIETOR. Courier "WISDOM, .JUSTICE, AND MODERATION.” FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. jjBW SERIES. ROME, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1879. VOL. 18, NO. 129 Anuta and (Csmmctcial. 3NSOUDATED APRIL IQ, 1876. rates of subscriptions. FOB THE WEEKLY. $2 00 One 1 oo nix months ^ Three mouths FOB THE tri-weekly. One yen'" nix months Three months imnhl yearly, strictly In advance, the price j( !he Weekly Courier will ho II 50. CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. q„c snuaro throe months 8 00 One square six months. .... WOO Onesquaro twelve months...... “ 00 One-fourth column ono month„. 7 60 One-fourth column throe months 16 00 One-fourth column six months 27 00 0,,e-fonrth column twelve months 60 00 One-half column one month IS w One-half column tliroo months 27 00 One-half column six months... SO 00 One-half column twolvo months 80 00 one column ono month " ™ One column threte moutliB M 00 One column six months..... ...a.......... 80 00 One column twolvo monthB 120 00 TI.B rnrnroIiiK rates are for either Weekly or Triweekly* When published tn both papers, 60 nereent. addlttonnl upon tablo rates. , f ^ , oioub thoughts which had their original root in the rude discourse of an obscure layman in an Irish barn. We do not dare to attempt any crit ical analysis of Toplady’s wonderful hymn. Just os soon would we pull a rose to pieces to find out where the de licious odor was lurking. The hymn itself is absolute perfection. Of all its lineB, we think the two finest are theBe: “Nothing In my hand I bring, Simply to thy cross I cling." No words can express more beautiful ly the entire empty-handedness with The Rock of Ages. Frank Leallo’s Sunday Msgailno. The Southern coast of England has been the birthplace of the grandest hymns in our language. Within that belt of land, sacred to devout poesy, Charles We6loy caught the inspiration of his hymns; and there, we believe, he composed that delioious love lay of the heart, "Jeius, lover of my soul.” On the shores of Hampshire mused I tad sang good Isaac Watts; and in the | same county modest Anne Steel breath ed forth her tender songs of consolation. Io old Kent lived Edward Perronett, | who struck that thrilling note, “All hail the power of Jesus’ name 1” In beautiful Devonshire tho Rev. | Henry F. Lyte chanted hiB last sweet u-lody, "Abide with me; fast fells tho eventide.” A few miles from him dwelt Char- I Intte Elliot, the sister of a clergyman, | who went about doing good; but the grandest work God ever put into her hands, was to write “Juat si 1 sm, without one plea.” Devonshire is certainly honored above I ill the shires of Britain, for on that po- I etic soil Augustus Toplady gave birth I to the mo9t glorious hymn of modern 1 times—the “Rock of Ages.” The “Dies I Istic” is the king of medieval hymns; | but of modern songs of Zion, tho Rock I of Ages wears the crown. It is a curious faot that tho spiritual I birthplace of the heart which fashioned Itbis hymn was a barn ! Augustus Top- lhdywas the bou of a British officer. JAfter Major loplady’s death, his widow Itoob the lad Augustus on a visit to Iro- Ibd. While at Codymian, the boy of ■sixteen found his way into a barn, l*here an earnest but uueducated lay- Ituanwas preaching on the text, Ye, IV? sometimes were afar off, are made |tugh by tho blood of Christ. The home- jpun preacher “builded better than he foew,’’ for his sermon converted the TO which gave to the Churoh of God >7 “onk of Ages. Probably that ob- TOe Irish preacher has overheard ten 1 echoes of his simple sermon javenly world. - p A4,yordained to the minis- |j ! n I?'2, and began to preach on the If®7 °‘ W Otter. Hie career was a Iff one > for he died at the age thirty- ™ worked hard. James Ham- 8a .y s of him, that “liko a race Lt ie ’ a ? erve an d fire, his life was on ™ an, \ his delight was to get over ground.” He composed in hot uni!’ C ? rtain| y some of his sharp fL, t papers were thrown off as lly a ‘"mace, for they scorched terri „?! 0 e “. when he wrote his magnificent JtotrJT?’ the Rock of Ages, he could Li a 8 ' 91 the temptation to give a thrust L up 8 ?* 1 ? he insisted were believers Ivmn r „, ctlon -” So he entitled his N di-in en lle P rin ted it, “a living luthi>» i§ r » yer of the holiest believer kduiiLu'PL Ttl18 18 as m noh ns if he I,. - too moat sanctified soul in K m iinful soul comes to grasp the Divine Redeemer as its only hope. The essence of the Gospel is in this matchless couplet. It has wrought itself into ten thousand pray ers for pardon; it has been the confes sion of faith for ten thousand penitents. Two slight changes have been made in Toplady’s hymn. The word “tracts” has been superseded by “words’. 1 in the last verse. In the same verse the author also wrote; “When my oyo strings bro&k In desth.” Perhaps he had learned the medical fact that, at the moment of dissolution, a delicate tendon near the eye some times break, and causes a flow of tears. But the allusion was more anatomioal than poetical, and the word “heart strings” is substituted in our common version. This glorious hymn yet waits for a tune worthy of it. The one in ordinary use is by no means of the highest order. Some master of mueic ought to com pose an “air” which shall describe the mnjestio onward and upward movement of the thought to its sublime climax. The whole hymn is a fervent outory of a broken heart to Jesus. It begins in the plaintive confession: • Not tho labor of my hands,” Then the supplicant owns that he is naked, empty-handed, and helpless and vile, and calls but imploringly: “Wash me, Saviour, or I die!” Then bis bursting heart begins to yearn and stretch onward. It reaches on to the dread hour when the heart strings snap at the touch of death. It sweeps out into eternity—it soars to the judgment seat. It beholds the great white throne I And, casting itself down before that throne, it pours forth its last piercing but triumphat cry: world must come down on his LQpfta WUIO UUffli Ull UlO lands 11 • c ? nPo8S , ‘Nothing in my (yin 1 ” tln g, and, ‘Vile I to this foun- Vr/tu 3 of 80n S • he has gone dcontr 8 nfe °f ton RU68 has ceased ifhaiM l° Ver81es aro ever hushed. Vi 9, ai *d Wesley have sung each id 8 m .slory, and been puzzled -giee h0,, Was ^ ey ever 8eeme< ^ IbffiS 8 lly m. n is ns universally It h. 6 !* n8 ' lmo or the vernal How- ety tonon beea irnnslated into almost i c hurch l 10 ’ rP 1 ' i’emeroy went into rtopanv „r Constantinople, where * |Jm n » y v,?.V Arme “inti8 were singing “find wen> P- ! amov ed them that tL- inm,!,;| ck l , ng ( i° wn their cheeks, man \!,® a , w '\at they were singing, id 1° 1 th e S6nt translated the words were the dear old lines of 1 — j mu „ When Prince Albert Kmured are fai'ii hie lips feebly pHyZ th ? sweet words of Topla- "'’j'ns Prin n 1 B .°, ltOttm0 nhout thal R " r ncfl laid hold of those pro “Bock of ages, oleft for me. Let me hide myself in Thee 1” The Democrats of Ohio are now en- in a vigorous canvass all along the line. Gen. Ewing, aided by the rest of the State ticket, is discharging his whole duty, and expresses the fullest confidence that he will be triumphantly elected. The Columbus Democrat of Thnreday says: “The most encouraging news comes us from all parts of the State. Everywhere the - Demooraoy are on the alert, and, unless there is flagging be- tween this and the day of election, the Democracy will achieve a signal victory. In Licking county the Democrats are sanguine they will get two thousand majority. Seven-eighths of the. Green- backers in that county are giving a hearty support to the entire Democratic ticket. In Lucas county the union of the Democratic and Greenback parties insures at least three thousand Demo cratic majority. The word from Mont gomery is equallyr encouraging. The average Democratic majority in that county is about eleven hundred; this fall the Democrats think they can safe ly count on fifteen hundred majority. The Fairfield Democrats think they will increase their majority at least five hundred. From all sections of the State comes news of great encourage ment to the Democracy, and if the good work is kept up the Democratic majon- ty will be much greater this fall than it was two years ago, when Governor Bishop received twenty-five thousand majority. Keep the ball rolling, boys.” Tho San Franoisco Bulletin thus summarizes the result of the recent elec tion in California: First—Republican State administra- ti0 Second—Workingmen’s and Demo cratic Supreme Court. Third—Triangular railroad commis- °Fourth— Republican representation in Congress. . Fifth—Mixed local government m San Franoisco, Sixth—Mixed Legislature. The Republicans have carried on tne State administration. The Working men and Democrats have secured the Supreme Court. All parties but one are represented on tho railroad commis sion. The results in other directions are mixed. But notwithstanding the apparent confusion a single and deter mined purpose on the part of the peo ple rune through the whole. The po mp- litical status of California isfixedby P Perkins, the Republican State officers and the delegation in Congress. If they should desire to take the bit In their mouths and run away there is a very effioient brake in the opposition Supreme Court. All parties are repre sented in the railroad commission, and antagonisms have been introduced else where which may result rather in a healthy than a disastrous friction, A Letter from Qen. R. E. Lee. Southern Historical Society Papers for September contains the following extraots from a private letter from Gen. R. E, Lee: “As to the battle of Gettysburg I must again refer you to the official ac counts. Its loss was occasioned by a combination of circumstances. It was commenced in the absence of correct in telligence. It was continued in the effort to overcome the difficulties by which we were surrounded, and it would hayo been gained could one de termined and united blow have been delivered by our whole line. As it was, victory trembled in the balance for three days, and the battle resulted in the infliction of as great an amount of M as ^received apd in frustrating ideral campaign for the season. “I think you will find the answer to our third question in my report of the attle of Fredericksburg. In taking up the position there it was with the view of resisting Gen. Burnside’s advance af ter crossing the Rappahannock, rather than of preventing the passage. The plain of Fredericksburg is completely commanded by the heights of Stafford, which prevented our occupying it in tho first instance. Nearly the whole loss that our army sustained during the bat tle arose from the pursuit of the repulsed Federal columns into the plain. To have advanced the whole army into the •lain for the purpose of attacking Gen. iurnside would have been to have in sured itS destruction by the fire from the continued line of guns on the Staf ford hills. It was considered more wise to meet the Federal army beyond the reach of their batteries than under their muzzles, and. even to invite repeated re newals of their attacks. When con vinced of their inutility it was easy for them, under cover of a long, dark and tempestuous night, to oross the narrow river by means of their numerous bridges before we could ascertain their purpose. “I have been obliged to be very brief in my remarks, but I hope that I have been able to present to you some facts which may be useful to you in drawing correct conclusions. I must ask that you will consider what I have eaid as intended solely for yourself. “Very respectfully and truly yours, “R. E. Lee.” The Truth About Maine. The Maine offioials, all Republicans, have held back the election returns as long as they possibly could, in order to make tho country believe that they had a majority in that State; but the truth has at last been brought to light, and the fact can no longer be concealed that the Republican party, which gave Hayes sixteen thousand majority in 1876, is now defeated by over three hundred votes. The Greenbaokers and Demo crats united have a majority in that State. The largest vote ever cast in Maine was polled at that election. The Kennebec Journal (Rep.) has the fol lowing official returns: Davis (Rep.) 68,012; Smith (Greenbacker) 47,088; Garcelon (Dem.) 21,181. The Republi cans lack 258 of a clear majority. The returns from the remaining towns will not materially change the above result. This is the Republican victory in Maine. What if the Democrats should boast of lacking only 258 of a clear majority in Kentucky ?—Cin. Enquirer. Price of a Leg. A widow whose husband was killed in a railroad accident, sues the compa ny and recovers 85,000 damages. A man who lost his leg in the same acci dent, sues in the same court and getB 815,000. The widow waylays the Judge and charges him with unjust discrim ination in valuing a leg at three times as much as a whole man. “That is not the point, my dear mad am,” says the urbane Judge. “Even with 815,000 the man oannot buy a leg as good as the one he lost, but a woman as young as you are, and with 85,000, can have no difficulty in getting a new husband.” . Tbe widow retires satisfied. * m *• A few days ago Walter Langley, in Alexandria, Va., killed a snake on hie front pavement. The reptile was about six feet - long and as thick as a man’s wrist. It was white in color, except on the belly, whero it was pure white, and was pronounced to be what is knewn as a “milk snake.” Mr. Langley has been laining for some time of other persons milking his cow, and was pleased to find the cause of the trouble and get rid of it. (uticura REMEDIES SALT RHEUM FOR 30 YEARS On the Head, Face and Greater Fart of the Body, Cured. Heiart. Weak! A Potter: Gentlemen—I have been a great sufferer with Salt Rheum for SO yeari, eommenolng in my bead and fsoo and extending orer the greater part of my body. I hare taken gallons of mediofnee for the blood of different kinds and tried good physiolaes, ell of which did mo no good, and I came to tho eonolu •ion that I oould not bo cured. But a friend oallod my attention to an artiolo In the Union on skin diseases, and I got a box of Gutloura. The first application was a groat relief, and tho third took the scales all off, and 1 felt liko a new man. I have uaed three 60-cont boxes and my skin is smooth, and I consider myself en tirely cured. Hoping that this may be soon by some one sfflloted os I hare been (if there is any) Is my earnest wish. And I cheerfully roe- ommend it to all persons aifileted with liko dii- easos. Yours truly, B. WILSON LORD. Agawam, Mass., Septi 0, 1878. The Cuilodra Soap ehculd be usod for cleans ing all diseased surfaces, ea most soaps are In jurious to tho skin. LEPROSY. A Modern Miracle. Astonishing Results from tho Uee or CUTICtlHA. Messrs. Weeks A Potter t Gentlemen —Wo hare a oase ot Leprosy in our poorhouto whioh is boing oured by your Cutioura remedies. The county had employed all of our dootort and bed lent to New York for advico, but to no arail. Tho patient commoncod using the Cutieura and immediately began getting better. Ha had been oonfined to hie bod for two and ono-half years. Had not had his olothos on during this time. Last week he dressed for the firat tune. When he walked there would at lesst one quart oi scales eomc off ot him. This happened every day. Wo think It le a wonderful cure. We do not say he Is cured, but he is in a fsir way to be cured, to say tbe least Yours truly, DUNNING BROTHERS, Druggists and Booksellers. Allegan, Mteh., Feb. 11, 1879. Norn.—Messrs. Dunning Brothers are thor oughly reliable gentlemen, and ware unknown to us prior to the receipt of this letter. We firmly believe this Cntlcura will permanently cure this Tory severe oase of Leprosy, as It hss done many others. Prepared by Weeks A Potter, Chemists and Druggists, 360 Washington Btreot, Boston, Mass., and for side by all Druggists and Dealers. Frloo of Cuticora, small boxes, 60 cents; largo boxos containing two and one-half times the quantity of email, $1. Risolvmt, $1 nor bottle. Cert- oona Soap, 26 cents per oake; by mall, 30 cents; 3 cakes, 76 cents. OLDEST AX!) BEST DR. J. BRADFORD’S Liver & Dyspeptic Medicine Infallibly Cure all Skin and Scalp Ills, eases, Scaly Eruptions, Itchlngs, and Irritations. The testlmoniele of pormanont cures ot Skin of a Ufo^lme, by 'the Cutlcera Remedies, are | This is a Prompt and Certain Cure for all Diseases of the Liver mors wondorhil than any ever before performod by any methods or remedies known to.tho med ical profession. Cutlonra Resolvent, a powerful Blood Purifier, is tho only purifying agent which finds its way into the circulating fluid and thenoe through tho oil and swoat glands to tho surfaeo of tne skin, thus destroying the poisonous elements with whioh those vcasols have been dally charged. Cutlonra, The Groat Skin Cure, appllod oxtor- nally, arrests all unnatural or morbid growths which cover the eurface of the diseased glands and tnbos with Soaly, Itching and Irritating Humors, speedily It removes them, leaving the pores open, healthy and froe from diseased par ticles of matter. Thus Internally and oxternally do those groat remedios tot In oosjnnotion, performing euros that have astonished the moat noted physicians of the day. Such as Dyspepsia, Headache, Chills and Fever, &c. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN EVERY CASE, OR MONEY RETURNED. FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS GENERALLY. J. Ot. YEISER, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Garden Seeds, &o., Sole Proprietor, Rome, Ga. R. T. Hoyt, Wholeoale and Retail Agent for Rome, Ga. febl twwly “P. O. !>.»» “Pill of Perfection.” It U a hard “PiU” for the OUl-Time Seiolng Machine Companies to talcc, 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 Caslt, or on short time, at lowest possible price. They are so constructed that the Lost Motion in all the wearing parts caused from long and constant use can be taken, up by the simple turning of a screw, there fore they are obliged to outlast any other Machine not provided with this necessary derice, ..... Statements of Agents of other Maohines to the Contrary Noth withstanding. They have more space under the arm, and are tlie lightest running Machine made. Therefore pay no attention to what others say hut try them yourself and buy the White if you want the best. For snic by R. T. HOYT. One of the Pennsylvanmuon «wmpa- nies has received a eontraotfor br dg work in Demerara, British Guiana, amounting to $175,000. HOYT & COTHRAN, Wholesale Druggists, ROME, GEORGIA, HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF GRASS AAISTE FIELD SEEDS, 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. JullOtwwtf eflLLINet Rheumatism, Neuralgia, CUkwitS Wrxk and Sore Lungs, VOLTAIC B9ELECTED Goughs and Golds, Weak At a Book, Stomaoh and Bowele, Dyspasia, Shooting Pains through the Loins and Back, Spasms or Fits, and Nervous, Museular and Spinal Affections, reltoTod and cured when every other plaster, linimont, lotion and eleetrlcal appllanoa tails. sepStwwlm COMMON SENSE VIEWS FOREICN LANDS. BY Nl. DWINELL. T his volume, of four hundred Pages, now ready for sale, ia well printed on good paper and ooatly bound In muelln. It embraces a series of Lettora written from the most interesting oitles of Southern Europe; from Alexandria, Cairo and tho Pyramids, in Egypt; from Jaffa, Jerusalem. Bethlehem,Beth, any, Mount of Ollvee, Jorioho, River‘Jordan, Dead Bea, to , In Palestine! Smyrna and An. eient Ephesus, in Syria; from Constantinople, Vienna, Swltserland, do., in Rnrope. Alio, a aeries from the Western part of Ameriea, from Omaha to Ban Franoieoo and ineluding a visit to the famoua Yoeemite Falls. This Volume will be sent by mail, free of poetage, on receipt of $1 60. Address Connie* Office, Rome, Ga., or It nan be bought at the Book Stores. The Liverpool Post says that tbe enormous richness of the old gold fields on the Guinea coast has not been exag gerated in the reports received of late. Sir John Glover’s statement that he had traveled over districts where one might dig up gold like potatoes is all but re alized in recent discoveries, which give 8600 per ton of quartz at a depth of fifty feet, and 815 on the surface. Their extent is practically unlimited. A reward oif one hundred dollars was offered for the delivery of JackMetter, a reputed horse thief, to the authorities of DeWitt county, Ill. Jack walked into the sheriff's office in custody of a friend, through whom be reCeived one hundred dollars, and with this money he employ ed a lawyer, who secured his acquittal. ROBERTSON, T1VL0R & CO., SUCCESSORS TO QE0. W. WILLIAMS & GO., COTTON FACTORS WHOLESALE GROCERS, -AND - CENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 1 & 3 Havne St., Charleston, S. 0., WILL GIVE ALL BUSINESS THEIR MOST CAREFUL ATTENTION. ‘ CoNSiasuEMTS or Cotton Solicited. jullotwSm julMtwwtf E. C. HOUGH, Rome, Ga. II. D. COTHRAN 879. FALL & WINTER TRADE. 1879. New Goods. Fine Goods. MRS. T. BfwiLLIAMS, M ILLINER, No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. rpHANKING MY MANY CUSTOMERS FOR THE LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME A in the put, I am proud to say that I am better prepared to ettond to their want! than over before. I have now in store and to arrivo Bonnet*, Uata, Flowers, Plumes, Silks, Velvet*, Pluihe*, Ribbon*, Ornament*, Hair Good*, Zephyr*, Comb*, Notion*, eto., oto., wbtnh I have lolectodin person in the Northern market*. 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