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Coiner .-..nnin ■ ft . M. n' vl - lN l3ffL, PROPRIETOR "WISDOM, JUSTICE.. AND MODERATION.” jjgW SERIES- ROME, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1879, FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOL 18, NO. 136 jfjiijitf ami ftmmcwial nWSOUPATED . APR1L IQ. 1878. HATES of subscriptions. |,’OIl THE WEEKLY. one year.. glx months ■phrpd months. EOlt the tri-weekly. On® year* , 2 qo six months.. ’ i qq “ nfllll yearly, strictly in advance, tho price CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. Square three month. 8 00 nun square six months... 12 00 One square twelve months....... 20 00 nne.fourth column one month ^ 00 JLfourth column throe months 15 00 J . “ulth column six months 27 00 One-fourth column twelve months 50 00 One-half column one month .. 15 00 One-half column three months 27 00 One-half column six months 00 IW One-half column twelvo months SO 00 One column one month 27 00 0»,column three months 60 00 Oneeolumn six months 80 00 onecolumu twelve months 120 00 The foregoing rates aro for either Weekly or Tvl-Weekly. When published In both papers, 60 percent, additional upon table rates. Down by the Sea. | Bathing in the Surf at Nlght-TUo Great Electric Light Supplants Sunshine-- Some Facts Concerning tills Wonderful Illuminator. Ic.irreepondonce of the Herald. ,i one of the last things that Iwould have ever occurred to pleasure ■seekers a few years ago, would have ■been the novelty of a bath in the surf lit midnight under the rays of an art ificial light, which for beauty and daz- liling effect outrivals the fiery darts of lOW Sol himself. But just now the T swell” thing is to take a trip to Coney ■island and indulge in the novel luxury ■of an hour’s frolic in the waves of the (ocean ns they come dashing over the [sands of Manhattan or Brighton Beach, liparkling and brilliant, glittering like Jcrystal as they Bcatter themselves over ■the shells and pebbles which line the lehore. Nothing more beautiful could ■be conceived than the sight witnessed Iby your correspondent a few evenings laince while enjoying a vacation at this ■famous resort. The night was without la moon uml but a few stars peeped out ■through the soldo mantle which seemed [tobe drawn twixt heaven and earth, with the Bky above and the broad wa- ten of the Atlantic below. At an.early [hour tho beach was lined with thou- uda of pleasure seekers who had re mained to enjoy the novelty of a bath In tbe surf under the glow of the great llectric lights. The grand hotels' and jsyenues already presented a brilliant piew, and thousands of gns jets dotted [tbe island on oither hand as far as the pye could reach. A BLAZING BEACON. la an instaut, however, the ponder- i engine was set in motion and the feat electric light flashed along the like a meteor, and darted its ing rays far out on tlie broad wa- 1™| “if seeking some lost or departed I™. Soon the throng commenced to purge in the water, and the ripples of was laughter which resounded along ■he coast gave unmistakable ovidence r* | bappy hearts which were being about on the coquettish bosom r, ?e bcklo waves as they would come U P the beach and scattering ', ,P ta 7 over the bathers like wanton '-tool boys. Tho writer viewed this Iff? 8Ceno for fully half an hoar, and Ti. turned his attention to the cause i i , Produced the effect. At inter im i^ l " e b®och w ere erected posts fra,™’ tu were attached the Li, * n ' c „ e88tlr y to hold the apparatus E""* ^ or f'glrf; on each of these 0he l , 8 |' V M e8 r. Ua P en( l 8d WliOt U] imnto I flro wit!l out any 1- - - L., and of such extreme brilliancy L , e otked eye could hardly stand LiT-T f ° r 0" instant. A milliou little Vll riegated light constantly S, "J ev ®ry tiirention as if striving lick in,™ f Vf® da rkness and woo it L n ® daylight. No moonlight ever Iv an i a Tenth part of the brillian- licinitv J 10 d ' c ^ eI *ng gas jets in the I lontin Wer p t8rned to yellow and sick- Ku ie i: P ‘.V 6 ta * low d >P8- Looking L e() fjj 1 ••■rough colored glasses it Cr,T aB »«ll round ball of white K,n 01, . of molten lead in its .in- L i h ( eat - u Pon inquiry it was THE PLAN OF THE WONDERFUL MACHIN ERY which produces this brilliant efleotis simply this: A revolving shaft is kept whirling with lightning rapidity between four blooks of steel, and these four blocks of steel and the revolving shaft *2 on a . re the sim P le elements which produce the marvelous electric light. These five simple things, with one or two other in nocent little pieces of copper plate, will produce one of the most phenomenal ef fects that the world has ever known. It produces a current of electricity so powerful that if you were to stand two miles off and touch that shaft with a piece of wire it would burn the wire like a flash of lighting. The four blocks of steel are the magnets, and aro oval in shape and covered with copper wire coiled tightly around them. The com mutator revolving between them is what generates the electricity and produces the light which bids fairs to eventually supersede all other forms of illumination throughout the wide world. The re volving shaft makes 900 revolutions a minute and every revolution the current of electricity travels once around the circuit, or around tbe wire which con nects the several lights, and finally comes back to the battery. The princi ple is the same as that of telegraphy. Any number of feet of wire can bo used and the lights placed at intervals along the circuit. AS SEEN AT SEA. These blazing beacons can be distin guished by vessels nearly fifty miles at sea, and their brilliancy far surpasses the brightest stars the light being much more dazzling and of a pure white. Wind or storm, rain or snow, oannot ef fect the light one iota. It defies the power of the elements, and will burn under water as well as above water, and will make the darkest night os brilliant as a summer’s sun. Ten of these lights are more than equal to 30,000 gas jets, and the cost of running the machinery is the only expense, aside from the car bons. WHAT THE CARBONS ARE. Having described the battery it is necessary te explain about the carbons on which the electricity feeds and pro duces the light. They are but little rods, twelve inches long by three-eighthB of an inch in diameter, manufactured from carbon taken from the gas retorts, and which goes through a rather com plicated process before they are ready :or use. First it is ground up then made into paste. It is then made into sticks and then the hardening process begins. They are placed in hydraulic qresses and pressed with a power of one lundred tons to the square inch. After this they are baked for forty-eight hours and then put through a chemical process, and lastly they are electro plated with copper and to all appear ances are but slender copper rods, yet of no more weight than a piece of pine. Two of these rods are used to each light. One in an upright position and one inverted. Ono positive, the other negative, and between these two ends is the ball of lire which produces the ter rific light. These carbons burn very slow, always being attracted toward each other and keeping the same distance apart, and no heat will burn them save that generated by electricity. This wonderful light is used to illuminate the mammoth tents of W. W. Cole’s great menagerie, and from the explana tion given it will prove a gratifying ad junct to his famous enterprise which is to exhibit in Rome on Monday, Novem ber 3d, afternoon and evening. W a °0 U --o'*****, uuvtoiy >vuh miia.- VorJ • UorBe , P°w«r engine with a been?« *n r )0 ^ er » an< ^ this engine ightby th’ter^'y f ° r ^e eleciri* »,andio „ llc hburg engine cotnoa- lewof — ® 0,| structed with a special ltHd, ,3 Cln ? an uninterrupted and Hi,yot,,ii’® n " hde the battery is sim- ^ e aof iit, "I’oworful i n Rp effects. Some N kno»n ' V i. r ,na .y he imagined when Khifvmi \ wil1 magnetize a Sfeet„fn , ould approach within Tour battery with a time-piece P'oied mo uM* The electrician in- NiiledinV. he had two watches “It’s th Way ‘ Said he: If win ma 0 n U , r - acti ° n the magnetism. Kd?a 8 r:i 9a11 the Bteel in your . ( otews it the , 8 P ri ngs toward any 1 ‘ustant.i’ 1 mft y have, and stop it in Josh Billings on Marriage. Sum marry bekaus they think wim min will be Bcarce next year, and live to wonder how the stock holds out. Sum marry to get rid of themselves, and discover that the game was one that two could play at and neither win. . , Sum marry for love without a cent their pocket nor a friend in the World, nor a drop of pedigree. This looks desperate, but is the strength of tho game. Sum marry in haste and then sec down and think it carefully over. Sum think it carefully over fust and then set down and marry. No man can tell jist exactly whar he will fetch up when he touches calico. No man kan tell jist exactly what calico has made up her mind tew do. Calico don’t know herself. Dry goods of all kinds is the child of circumstances, Chief Justices U« S. Supreme Court. Courier-Journal. On the organization of the Govern ment under the Federal Constitution, in 1798, President Washington called to that high position John Jay, of New York. He was then forty-four years of age, having been born in 1745, he had previously filled various important of- lices, political, judicial and diplomatic. He had assisted Hamilton and Madison in editing the Federalist. In 1794 he resigned'his Chief Justiceship to accept the.mission to England. There he ne gotiated tho treaty which bears his name. He was Governor of New York from 1795 to 1801, after which he re tired to private life, and died in 1829, aged eighty-four years. In July, 1795, during the recess of the Senate, John Rutledge, of South Carolina, was appointed. He presided on the bench at but one term of the court, for his nomination was rejected in the following December. He was an Irishman by birth and an ardent patri ot in the Revolution. He was Governor of hi» adopted State in 1779, and subse quently a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States. He died in 1800, aged sixty-two years. In January, 1796, William Cushing, of Massachusetts, waB nominated and confirmed, but he declined the office. He was then an Associate Justice. Oliver Ellsworth, of Connecticut, was nominated and confirmed in Maroh, 1796. He resigned the office in 1800 on account of ill health. He had been member of the convention which framed the Federal Constitution, and a Senator in Congress. He died in 1807, in the sixty-third year of his age. Among the last acts of the adminis tration of President John Adams was the appointment of John Marshall, of Virginia. His nomination was con firmed January 31,1801. His long and illustrious career as a jurist is too well known to require a word from us. He died in Philadelphia July 6, 1836, in The successor of Chief Justice Mar shall was Roger B. Taney, of Maryland. He died in harness October 12,1864, aged eighty-seven years. Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, was nom inated by Presdent Lincoln, and con firmed by the Senate in December, 1864. He died in 1873, aged sixty-four years. The present Chief Justice is Mr. Waite, of Ohio. He was appointed by President Grant. Succobb in the Stock Market. COLL!N S » Few people understand how large I nk ' 8 condition, fortunes are amossod so rapidly instock 1 operations. Messrs. Lawrence & Co., Bankers, N. Y., have just published ‘‘two unerring rules for success,” and full details, so that any one can operate. Mailed free, Their new combination system of dealing in stock is wonderful ly profitable. By this method thousands of orders, in various sums, are pooled into one immense capital, and co-oper ated as a mighty whole,,thus securing to each shareholder all the advantages of vast capital and best skill. Profits divided every 30 days. $15 would make 875 profit, $100 would return 81,- 000, or 10 per cent, on the stock in the month, and so on, according to the mar ket. A New York Fashion Editress and prominent newspaper correspon dent, made over 375 per ot. profit'on an investment, Oct. 5th, 1878. Many oth ers are doing as well or better. Large or small amounts oan be used with equal proportionate success by this sys tem. All kinds of stocks and bonds wanted. Government bonds supplied. Apply to Lawrence & Co., Bankers, 67 Exchange Place, N. Y, City. (yiticura HUMORS OF THE SCALP. LOSS OF HAIR. Lon of Hair in thousand! of aasaa ia duo en tirely to lomo fora of acalp disease. Seventy- fivo par cent, of the number of bald he,da m ght be covered with hair by a judicious use of Cu- ticora. assisted by CcriounA Soap. It Is the most agreeable ae well as the most offectivo hair restorer ever produced by man. It ia medicinal in the truest sense of tho word. All others are some oleagenous mixture of poisonous dyes. None but Coticdra possesses the speciBo medfeal properties that enable it to oure ell itching and scaly diseases that ibilame and irritate thesealp and hair glands and tubes, causing promature baldness. Medium doses of the Cvticdra Rs- aoAviXT will purify tho oil and sweat glands of tho viius of scrofulous humor of tho blood and Insure a permanent cure when taken in eonneetion with the outward application of Cdsicdra. SALT RHEUM"AND DANDRUFF Cured mat several pit] alcians had failed to treat aucceeafully. Messrs. Weeks A Potter: Gentlomom—I have had the Salt Bheum on iny head aid all through my hair, alao on my legs. for the paat four yeara, having suffsred exceedingly witn it. The dan drulf falling from my hair waa very annoying. I conaulted several distinguished physicians in regard to it, and have taken their prescriptions as ordored, bat did not find any cure and bat little rollef. I was told by many persons who have tho Balt Bheum, and who have been doc tored for yeara, that thero waa no cure for it; that it waa in the blot d, and I should alwaya have it, and I waa almost inclined to agroe with thorn, but a friend wauled me try Odtioura, mado by your Qrm. I dll, and to my aatonlih- mont, in leia than three week) my head was entirely free from all Salt Bheum and DandruO, and I cannot see any appearanco of Balt Bheum on my p rson. I think It a wonderful remedy. Beapectfully yours, GEOBQE A MUDGE Portsmouth, N H., Feb. 0, 1878. HUMOR OFTHE SCALP That waa destroying the Hair cured with one box of CUTICURA. Mossrs. Weeks A Potter: Gontlomen—I want to tell you what Cuticura has done for mo. About ten years ago my hair began falling out, caused by Humor of the Boalp. I tried various remedies, too numerous to mention, without relief, until I began using Ootioora, one box of i which has entirely cured me, and ntw hair la beginning to grow. Kespeotlully, MBS. O. J. BOOT. 807 W. Lake St„ Chicago, III., Nov. 13, 1878. We know the above to be true. Mary B. Towrirrd, 412 W. Jaokson St. Mrs. O. A. Gray, 341 Fulton Bt. SCALD-HEAD For Nine Years cured when nil other Ilcmediea failed, Messrs. Wooks A Potter: Gentlemen—Bineo July last I have been using your Cuticura for Scald Head, and It has cured me when all medi- oines that I have taken for nine years did mo no good. I am now using it as a heir dressing, but my head is well. It keeps the heir in very "ours truly, H. A. KAYMOND, Auditor Fort Wayno, Jaokson A Sagioaw B. U Jaokson, Mich., Doc. 20, 1878. Tailoring 1 ! Tailoring 1 ! PLENTY Piece Goods, Hats, Caps, Furnishing Goods,. SHIRTS, UMBRELLAS, ETC., — AT — CALL AND SEE THEM. •ep2S tw wtf It. T. IIOYT. II. D. COTHBAN HOYT & COTHRAN, Wholesale Drng-gists, ROME, GEORGIA, HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OP GRASS AND FIELD SPEEDS, INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD GRASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (nnj Oats to arrive.) Which they Offer to the” Trade at Lowest Possible Figures. Julio tw wtf The Cuticura Brukuikb are prepared by Weeka A Potter, Chemists and Druggists, 300 Washington Street, Boston, and are for Bale by all Druggists. Prise of Cuticura, small boxes, 50 cunts; large boxes, containing two and one- half times the quantity of (mail, f 1. Bksolyxrt $1 per bottle. CurteunA Soap, 25 cents; by mail, 30 cents; 3 cakes, 75 cents. Instantly they banish B Paln - and Weakness, rouse ELECTED tbe dormant Muscles Into at ..-me new life, itlmulate tbe STLl- 8 Liver and Kidneys, oure Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Bilious Colic, Cramps and Pains, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Weak Spins, Weak and Bore Lungs, Coughs and Coldr, Weak Baek, Ague and Liver Fains. oot7twwlm Nashville American: The freight traffio on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway iB now so heavy that clerks are kept up to an unusually late hour. One hundred and twenty cars are daily received here off that road, and about one hundred and nftjr are sent south. The clerks in the ot- fice of Chas. Saunders, General Freight Agent of the Louisville depot, are also doing bard work on business of the Lou isville and Nashville and Great South ern railroad, sitting up as late as lz o’clock at night. There has not been so large a rush of freight in all directions since the panic of 1873. Everything seems to be booming about the railroads. Sixteen hundred and five cars were un loaded at the Louisville depot last month, and nine hundred and seventy- two cars loaded. It is a mean man who would fool a fish by wearing a white ohoker and olerioal coat when strolling along tbe banks of a brook on Sunday. A Random Bullet. Bad luck made George Waterfield down-hearted, and he frequently threat ened to take his own life. So discon solate was he that when somebody ask ed the loungers on the veranda of the tavern at Edge Hill, Pa., to go into the barroom and drink, and all the rest re sponded with alacrity, he stayed out side alone. When the others came out again they found Waterfield laying dead on the floor with a wound in his breast. They thought he had carried out his suicidal purpose by stabbing himself, but they could not find a knife. An examining physioian found a bul let in the supposed gash, and it was a mystery how the shot had been fired, until it was ascertained that » man had fired a rifle aimed in that di rection from a point three quarters of a mile away. ^ New York Sun : The eldest of the three daughters of the poet John G. Saxe was buried in Greenwood Ceme tery yesterday afternoon, by the side of her younger sister, who died four years ago. The poet and his remaining daughter, who is in St. Albans, Vt., were not present, both being invalids, The mother and two brothers of the de ceased woman were at tho buiial. The grave was covered with flowers, among which appeared in violets the motto, “He giveth his beloved rest." 4 m \ ^ “In pursuing nay theme I should like to cover my ground, but—’’ “Bay shoes big enough for your feet and you’ll do it,” was the impudent suggestion from the crowd, and the ora tor adjourned his remarks until a more refined audience could be present. COMMON SENSE VIEWS FOREIGN LANDS. BY M. DWINELL. T his volume, of four hundred Pages, now ready for sale, Is well printed on good paper and neatly bound In muelln. It embraeea a serine of Letters written from the most interesting cities of Bouthorn Europe; from Alexandria, Cairo and the Pyramids, in Egypt; from Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem,Beth any, Mount of Olivee, Jericho, River Jordan, Dead Boa, ta, in Palestine; Smyrna and An cient Ephesus, in Syria; from Constantinople, Vienna, Switaerlsnd, Ao., in Europe. 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