Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Home M dwiuell, proprietor. Courier “ WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND MODERATION.*' SERIES. ROME, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1879. FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOL. 18, NO. M2 Min and (Bomtuwrial. ^MUPAT»DA p M L to. 1870. hates of subscriptions. for THE WEEKLY. one year H jj month* Three months. 82 00 . i 00 kor THE tri-weekly. 84 00 One year- - 2 qq Six month**- . ” j qq Three mouth* ***** ! yearly, strictly In advance, the price „ Iffily Curler w!' 1 he «1 50. CONTRACT rates of advertising. One square one month. * * °“ Onemuaro three months One square stx months...... WOO One square twelve months...... 20 00 One-fourth column one month. 7 80 One*fourth column three months W 00 one-fourth column six months W 00 One-fourth column twelve months 50 00 One-half column ono month 15 00 One-hnlf column throe months 27 00 One-hslf column six months..... - 60 00 One-half column twelve months. - 80 00 one column ono month " “ Onecolnmn throe months 50 00 One column six months... 00 onecolumn twelve months 120 00 Ti.a foregoing rates are for either Weekly or TH-ffneUy- When published In both papers, 50 plrccnt. additional upon table rates. CrawlineOver WITH 111!* TAIL O.N THE OTHBIt Ml OB. nillAtp Meets up with his old Friend, Newt Tumllu, when the Political Situation ji Descanted upon—A Quiet Blip- ping over to Grant* Atlanta Constitution. Ohio has gone, and they say New York is going. The Grant boom grows bigger and bigger, and ever and anon it seetna to me I hear the thunders of our subjugation reverberating in mourn ful tnuttering8 from the cloud capped pinnacles of the Rocky mountains to thb pine clad peaks of Kennesaw. ThereB no comfort when we look abroad and the spark of political peace grows mor tal dim at home. Our golden oppor tunity is lost. "ll.>pe fir a sea,on bade the South farewell And freedom shrieked when Sammy Tilden fell.” The yellin injun is on the war path, Dennis Kearney is a tearin around, Conkling is waiving the bloody shirt, Cox and Kelly have bolted the track, and there9 right smart mutiny on board our own good ship of State. Nevertheless notwithstanding I am trying to be reconciled. What is to be, sill he, whether it happens or cot. Whom the Lord lovoth he chasteneth I and I’m afeerd them Radicals don’t have much chance for heaven for they’ve got all the power and money and office and sinecures and sine que eons and every good thing you can think of. We haven’t got muoh of anything down here outoide of children and cats and yaller dogs that’s always hungry. Our “great expectations” have | vanished. The prospect for a good time a on the other side of Jordan, and if hem Rads whip us out next year we may hang up the fiddle and the bow, for thercs no use hoping against hope. I I was in Rome yesterday, and above Mi rumbling of drays, the cracking of "hips, the hissing of locomotives, and the awful breathings of the cotton com presses, I heard my friend NewtTumlin hail me 200 yards up Btreet. He talked I the top of his voice until he got to | nie; and says I: ^llhai) my sweet and gentle friend I I 'hy whispering accents remind me of [ ™ street south wind that breathes upon a T! olet “- Is it well with thee ? 1 sanguine and screen ?” I,, ®y a dingnation sight, Bill Arp. “?. a kittled individual—a dead horse 6 woods, and the buzzards are a I „! lng ro “ n d huntin for my devoted I (7 Cms ; °old my cotton yesterday for I i'Ji 6nl9 ’ a , nd bete it is 10} this morning. Lmi dm 00 hundred dollars in one day I T? V(,r git 4 hack in the round 1. , I® now going round taking up An «uti°n for my poor orfin I loit 60 ' Giv ® me hen dollars. The I ter lit a 7?.8 als i an d all come in a lit* I“ ra hbits and I never expect to “1 a* ero V, n > ^ or a wearin out, *' m tt wearin out. I’m as ‘ n ‘he back as Bill Ramey—broke 1 holl J” the me8 > and my lungs are as f ern I* a f an empty bee-gum. The in- I amt r a9tma has attacked mveserpagus, IS-talk above a whisper. It all Ifotfii? m lny hellorin around laBt fail emL °\ and Eester, and it dident do Bill A d “ tn f bltof R°°d- Ive quit now Yankees l* We are a11 bu,ted - These years " ave got us Yor a hundred I >o iin« „L° me ’^ nd ‘heres no chanoe but |and w 4 »“: tired of totin wood I minoiinitr V rod of these everlastin hhen h» f' •, I ' l ? ts do like Dr. Miller said I for a Ult 1 >e °*d Whig party, lets Bill f ( . 5 party size. Lets iine em, oew' l,„ y *oahe a powerful fuss over Mmeovo!*/ 18 ' .When the old whigs now, and that shows his political sagac ity. Lets iine em, Bill. I wish I had a voice to talk to you. Lord help us all. A hundred dollars gone betwixt sunset and sunrise. Thad Duval has jined em, and now be comes to town every day for a great big letter from Wash ington city, tellin him to put two hun dred lightnin rodB on the custom house in Atlanta at fifty dollars a rod. That’s ail right, and I hope he’ll git it. We needent make a blowgun about goin over, for the cussed editors like Dick Harris will be pitchin into us, but just quietly get the password from the old Doctor and then set down and wait for an offis. Offia an money will make anybody respectable. Dingnation take that cotton. Why dident somebody tell me it was a goin up. A hundred dollars gone and my poor children suf- ferin for the luxuries of life. Good-bye, Arp; if I badent lost my voice I’d talk to you. I must swindle somebody be fore I leave this town. Sam Morgan thinks he played Julius Ccesar in put ting cotton up this morning. I’ll swap horses with him some of these days and he’ll thtnk thunder and lightnin struck him. He’d better see Tnad Duvall and ;it a rod put on his hat. Farewell, Bill, urrah for Gordon and Lester. Tell Henry Grady if he wants anything to draw on me. I love Henry though he was for Speer. He smell) the bottle from afur. I tell you, William Arp, this Democratic party is qoiog to thun- deration. Its too dingnation unanimous at the South. You see the Republican patty at the North is the respectable party, rich and smart, and high strung and their Democracy is weighed down with rag-tag and bob tail and every vagabond in the country. If we could just mix our Democracy with their re spectable Republicans it would be all r ght. Lets jine em and do it, and if they dont divide out and tote fair, we’ll bust up the concern. I am tired out a waiten for the rewards of my patriotism. We cant do nothin from the outside. I’m for myself now. A hundred dol lareisa power of money. Good-bye, William, I wish I oould talk to you Hurrah for Gordon and Lester.” I like Newt Tumlin. He’s a good shot. He can kill more game with a scattering gun than any other man with a rifle. The last I seen of him Jimmy Smith was trying to hire him as a tele thons from Rome to Kingston, but ffewt insisted be was losing his voice and he shouted to me in tones that shook the depot: “Bill Arp, dont you put me in the Constitution,” and I wont. Yours, Biu, Arp. P. S.—Tell Mr. “Lounger” I surren der and wont misunderstand him any more. As Gen. Lee said at Gettysburg, “It was all my fault.” Tell him when he comes to see ub just give us three days of grace on a postal card and we will honor his coming with “All hail to the chief.” B. A I “[i liliTfu to Ua ‘ke Democrats took em I ll >e calii! P r °digal son and killed all 1 Toorobs a T nd , 8 ive Stephens and Underw^i 1 d ® n J £lI '8 and Miller and wiWk 1 “i 1 ‘. he best offices. That’s I “ttv tie dm o° V Dot fl y ou 800. bow PP«r»nii n ^ Ste P henB ana Felton and Kr bt h - y dident fl °P clean over K’of ,L JU ?‘ al,pped lbrou g b tbe I fence and left their tails I\1’A K . °Ut on oilr nido Anil Ona W&w*°o oilr side, AndGus I Pippin a 8b ppin and slidin along I 1 ri " to Ann. He’s for Grant right an order upon the tax collectors iu the State to be made payable to the county school commissioners for the amounts due the counties for sohool purposes, these orders being made receivable at the treasurer in settlement of the ac counts of the various tax collectors. It appears then that at no time has any of the Bchool fund of the State passed through the hnnds of the commis sioner, but that prior to the aot of 1876, the fund was paid out on exou'.ive war rant upon the treasurer and subsequently by the State school coommissioner’s order on the tax collectors fqr the amounts due the several counties^ The money necessary to meet the cur rent expenses of tiie office of the com missioner is drawn upon warrant, from such school funds as may be in the treasury. An itemized Statement of such expenditure from the year 1876 to date, tbe committee submit herewith, masked “exhibit A.” This statement includes the entire expense of this of fice. In addition to the appropriation made by the State, certain schools in the State have received some aid from what is known as the Peabody fund. This fund was created foe the purpose of aiding in introducing public schools throughout the South. It is managed by a board of trustees originally se lected by Mr. Peabody himself, and so selected os to be distributed throughout most of the StateB of the Union. The board meets annually to pass upon the acts of the general agent Under a sys tem of rules adopted by them donations are made to various schools and for oth er sohool purposes throughout the States of the South. The schools that bave complied with these requirements and received assistance from this source, together with the several amounts re ceived by them, are herewith submitted and marked “exhibit B.” It is proper to say that through the commendable energy of the commis sioner this munificent benefaction, be stowed upon tbe school interest of the State by the late George Peabody, have greatly aided the purposes for wbioh it was intended. The commissioner impressed with the benefits to be derived | from this source and desiring to husband ; the scanty resources furnished by the 1 State consented to distribute tbe fund thus tendered without compensation, except such sum as might be necessary ; to defray his traveling expenses while j working in the interest of the public ' schools of the State. This arrange- , ment has enabled the commissioner to fntimnClocks! Tick! Tick! Tick! uio ui d ALLEN & mcoskEK. HUMORS OF THE SCALP, LOSS OF HtlB. Lom of Hair in thousands of eases is du* en tirely to some forte of scalp disease. Hovont?- fivs per cent, of the number of bald bv dt m pht be covert d with hair hy a judicious uso <1 <’u TtrtWA. usuioteri by (VruHiRA Sap Tt is the meet agreeable as wo-1 as the moat effective t sir restorer ovor produced by man It is medicinal in the true t sense of the word All ott ers are some olesgenous mixture of poiionous djes None butUtTiouiu possesses thespicifle medical properties that enable it to cure nil itching and coaly dise&ces That it ilamo and irritate the scalp and ha^ glands aud tubes, causing premature balduesa Medium dotes of the CttvicunA Re- solvent will purity tbe oil and sweat glands of the vitus of scrofulous humor of the blood and insnre a permanent cure wh*»n taken in connt'C'ion with the < utward appl cat on of Ciiricimi. SALT RHEUm'aND DANDRUFF (nred tint several physicians had failed lo treat «ucct»fhlly. Messn. Weeks 4 Poltor: Gentlemen— Ihsee hed the Salt Rheum on my head sad all through my hair, also on my ’en, Fur tho past four years, having euflered cxoeod-ngly wit - it. Tho dan drulF falling from my hair was rery annoying. I consulted iSveral dUtingulshed pbyaielana in regard to it, and have taken their preemptions as ordered, but did not find any core and but little relief. I waa told by many persona, who have the Balt Rheum, and who have been doe- tored for yean, that there wee no euro 'or it; that it was in tho ,blo d, and I abould always have it, and I waa alnjost inclined to agree with them, but a friend wanted mo try Cimooaa, mado by your firm. I di and to my aetonlah- ment, In fe<a than three weeka my head waa entirely tree irom all Balt .Rhcum and Dandrufi, and I cannot aee any appearance c f Salt Rheum on my p raon. I think tt a wonderful remedy. Rospootfully yours, GEORGE A MUDGE Portamouth, N H.’, Fhb. 8, 1878. HUMOR oTtHE SCALP That wni destroying the Hair eared with: one box or CUTICUflA. Mescre Weeka A Potter i Gentlemen—I want to tell you what Cuticuiu haa done for me. Alnut ten veara ageTny hair began falling ont, caused by Humor of ihe Scalp.- I tried varieua romediea, too numerous to mention, without relief, nntil I begun using Outiodna, ono,box of which baa entirely cured beginning to grow. 807 W. Luke St„ ChicagoJriT’Nov.’l3,"im" Wo know tho above to be true, Maav K Towssksd, 412 W. Jackson 8t. Mna. C. A. Guar, 341 Fulton BU JUST RECEIVED A Large and Beautiful As sortment of Clocks, INCLUDING THE LATE8T AND M08T UNIQUE STYLES. Prices Rangiog from $1 to $15. CONHTAV-ri,V MEOKJVING all THE LATEST AND MO T NOBUY STYLES OF BRIDAL PRESPNT?, FIVE JEWELRY, Silverware, &c. ALL GOODS SOLD ENQRAVED FREE BY US. septlwwtf :ured me, and n w hair Is Respectfully, MRS- O, J. ROOT. SCALD HEAD For Nine Years cured when all other Remedies failed, Moears Weeka A Fotter: Gentlemen—Binoo have been using your OotreoRa fur and it hassured me when all modi- _ . r l.„„ , i oines mat I have taken fur nine year* did me as have from time to time been suggest-1 no gooi> I am now UI <ng it a. a hair draining, ed for tbe good of the system Without ' but my head is well. It keepa the hair in very any expenditure from the State fund, nice condition. Yo “h l * uI Raymond We have found the records of the of- Aud;tor Port WlJDe , Jackl ' on ia.giaaw r. r. Visit different portions of the State and j July last I h to discuss before the people such changes j 8 , c *‘ d Head,« 1 r t,^ oinea that I School Commissioner Orr. Report of the Hpeclal legislative Commit tee. The special committee appointed Uy the house of Representatives to investi gate the office and accounts of the State school commissioner submit the follow ing report. ,, , The constitution of 1808 provided that the poll tax, together with any edu- catibnnl fund then belonging to tbe State, except the endowments and debts due to the State university or that might be hereafter obtained in any way, a special tax on shows and exhibitions and on the sale of spirituous and malt liquors and the proceeds for cotnmutation for military servioe, were to be set apart and devoted to the support of common schools. It was father porvided that if, at any time, the amounts thus set apart should prove insufficient, the general as sembly should have power to levy such eneral tax upon the property of the jtate, as would be necessary for the sup port of said school systen. An act of the general assembly, approved August 23d, 1872, addnd to thiB fund, one-ha f the rent of the Western and Atlantio rail road, making an aggregate annual ap propriation of about three hundred thousand dollare. The constitution of 1877 embodied the act of August 23, 1872, in its provision for school pur poses, and added to the fund provided for the constitution of 1868, all taxes that may be assessed on such domestic ani mals as, from their nature and habits, are distructive to other property. The general assemble has not seen fit, as yet, to impose such additional.M, and there has been nothing added to tne general sohool fund by these provisions We find that the fund ariBing from these differrent sources hue been equitably dis tributed by the apportionment ol tne commissioner, among the various coun ties of the State. Formerly this distri bution was made by executive warrant upon the treasury, based upon the com missioner’s apportionment, which ap portionment was computed upon an enumeration mode by the county school commissioners, giving tb ® . lhe children of school age entitled to me benefits of of the fund This p^n of S3H2HSS trwmurT u .P° n warranto and. returned to Ae various localities from which they had been ro ° e Upon tho rcoomendation of the corn miXer, the general assemb y ,n 187o to relieve this expense, pa»®d » authorizing the commissioner to draw fice correctly kept, and the system adopted renders all questions of busi ness connected with the office a matter of easy reference. Here follow exhibits A and B. In conclusion the committee beg to commend in warm terms of approval the efforts of the commissioner to dis charge the duties of his office and the untiring zeal with which he has labored for the educational interests of the State. We do not hesitate to pro- nouuce him a faithful and efficient offi cer. [Signed] Wm. T. Dickin, Chairman; B. F. Carr, C. G. Janes, W. J. Northern, H. M. Burch, John Bell, D. Cran Oliyeu. Jackaon, Mich., Pac, 10, 1878. The Cuticura RauiOiRB arc prepared by Weeka A Potter, Chemlata and Druggists, 300 Washington Street, Boston, and are 7" 'ate by- all Druggists. Prloe of Cuticura, small boxes. 50 esets; Urge boxes, containing two and one- tlmea tbe quantity o( small, $1 Resolvent Soar, 25 cents; by cents. half tlmea the quentity at e $1 per bottle. Cuticura mail, SO oentai 3 cakes, 75 CQLLINfii Instantly thay banish pllp and Weakness, reuse VOLTAIC BSEUCIHO the dormant Muscles Into P/ActcRS ‘if*, .timulato tbe STLiver and Kidneys, ours Dyspepsia, lodigsatlon, Billons Colfo, Cramps and Pains, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bolatiea, Weak Spine, Week and Bore t.uega. Coughs and Colds, weak Bask, Ague and Liver Pains. oot7 twwlm PLENTY Piece Goods, Hats, Caps, Furnishing Goods, SHIRTS, UMBRELLAS, ETC., i.qtAr- CALL, AND SEE THEM. .• sep25 twwtf I- JlW R, T, HOYT. II. D. COTIIRAN HOYT & COTHKAN, BOMB, GEORGIA, HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF GRASS AND FIELD SEEDS, INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY; HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD (JRAS9, BARLEY AND RYE, (and Oats ti arrive.) Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures. . ishwfttf .aitno'lifi COMMON SENSE VIEWS The New York Sun fires the following shots at the fellow who so hastily re tired from ex-Senator Sprague’s Can- onchet residence: “w e are sorry to learn that the, elo quent and renowned Republican leader and orator, the Hon, Roscoe Conkling, is laid low with malarial fever. “We never heard before that the fe ver prevailed at Canonchet, although we have heard of persons being sudden ly seized with the shakes there. “Perhaps the diagnosis has not been thorough aud correct; and it copy be some other ailment. “Mr. Conkling must have a strong desire to speak for Mr. Cornell, eveu if he has no heart for anything else. There can be doubt about that; and no man in this country is better qualified than the eloquent Senator to portray the horrors of the ‘shot-gun policy ’ ” The San Francisco Chronicle says that dairying in the Northern coast counties pf California is mainly carried on by Swiss, who make a good imita tion of SwIbs cheese, which sells readily at remunerative prices. Some of the most prosperous dairymen of the State came to it poor ten years ago, but now own good farms, well stocked, and have built comfortable houses and barnB, The Swiss are neat, economical in their expendituree, and, above all, industri ous. Greatness and usefulness in this world, little man, do. not depend on eue, The smallest thing about a man’s trous- Crsie the suspender button. But just let it snap off while he is paying bis re- apecto to his hostess at an evening party- An ulster that would fit Gohoh wouldnj cover his confusion-—Burlington Hawk;- eye. A son of the late Major-General George C. Meade, to now employed in the machine shops at Renovo, on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. FOREIGN LANDS. BY M. DWINELL. T his volume, of four hundred Page*, now ready lot sal*, is well printed on good paper and noaUy bound to mbilln. It embraeos a series of Letters written from tho most interesting cities of Soqtbern Europe; fiom Alexandria, Cairo and tbe Pyramids, in Egypt; from Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beth eny, Mount of Olives, Jericho, River Jordan, Dead Sea, Ae ', la Palestine ( Smyrna and An cient Ephesus, in Syria; from Constantinople, Vienna, Switaerland, Ac., in Europe. Aleo, series from the Westers part of America, from Omaba to San Franciicn and Including a visit id the famous Yoeemite Falla This Volume will be sent by meil, fre* of pottage, on roceiptof $1 60, Addrete CouRise Offlco, Rome, Go., or it can be bought at tba Book Rtoree. 1879. FALL & WINTER TRADE. 1879. New Goods. Fine Goods. MRS. T. BrWlLLlAMS, 5 Ax I Ej Ej INK n, No. 61 Broad Street* Rome, Ga. 'T'HANKINO MY MANY CUSTOMERS FOR TME LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME 1 in the poet, I am proud to cay that I am bottir prepared to attend to their wanta than ever person in .tbe Northern markoU. My.Gootis are in the Latest Strles, end I hove my Trimming done with gpqd material by experience milliners. Call and.examine my goods and get my price! before purchasing elsewhere, (ooti7 tw wtf James G. Dailey, UNDERTAKER'S WARE-ROOMS, (On sse-ind story) 96 BrQad Street. IW coiinecliop with our Immenreitrak, trs have added a Milline ry Department, wh-te Winter Styles, em bracing Trimmed and Untrimmed In Strao end Jolt-Hole. 8 o our Hew Stylo Pattern HaU. This Miss ABBiE WEBB, ossified by Mm- E. BURNETT, who will be pleased to see all •of' ibeir friends Wdl, qon- Btantly receive all of tbe Late.i Novelties ea they appear. GREAT OPENING f,B list v:rl. —OF THE- CRYSTAL PALACE, l "' 13 Shorter Block. NEW STORK! NEW ROOD!!! NEW STYLES IN • DRE8S GOODS, CASH- . - , : .. MERES. ALPACAS, LARPE . VARIETY CHEAP DRESS QOOHS, tliMENRE ASSORTMENT SHAWLS, CLOAKS; REPELLANTS, LADIES’ ' MESTIOS, JEANS, 'OAssrtfiTtEa, blank etsj comfortables separate departments for Clothing, -Roots, Sbcdeafld-Hate. Complete stook Qpni’n Fqn- n" ipg 00 ». DAVIS & CO. ; . oQtlttwwH, , , .. Cell and see our ; line of Gloves lofore baying. The cheap est line of Thiee. Button Kid Gloves in the city, that wa war- rent. Ladies’ Neck Wear, Ties, Bows, Silk and Lace Fis- cbna, Collars end Cnflb, Linen and Bilk Handkerchiefs, Hembuigs, Ribbons, Hosiery and Ladies’ Linen. Loses of all kind*; Corsets, Dree* Trimming*, and ev- erytbtng usually kept In a' first elasa Dry . Goods House. A L BIN OMBERG, i FINE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK Grained, a . of Metallic, WalauL Coffins, Burial Robes aud Coffin Tvlmmlngi, al- > funeratt.' , *An or night. Residence, corner Court ond King streots. . ALSO, DEALER IN FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE OF AIL KINDS. Jul5twtmarl(t . and Stained | No. 33 Broad. Street, Hus juat received a targe Stock CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC A LARGE STOCK WALL PAPER. |®'^VRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.-)®* «1 r2,lw-wly