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Mark Twain in Politics.
|0IV He Introduced Gen. Hawley to u Ke-
pul.'icaik Meeting at fcltnyrn, N. Y.
la introducing to you Gen. Joseph
K Hawley, member of Congress, late
president of the centennial commission,
formerly a general in the army, once a
Governor of Connecticut, chairman of
the Chicago convention which nominated
Gen. Grant, head of an excellent daily
newspaper, member of my church
in Hartford, and author of “Beautiful
Snow,” it is my province to enlarge upoD
i matters generally. I am here simply
to give him a character from his last
place. Ae a lellow-townsman and duti
ful citizen, I have a high respect for
him; as a personal friend of long stand
ing, I have a warm regard for him ; as
I a neighbor, whose vegetable garden ad-
I joins my own, I—well, I watch him.
1 But that is nothing—we all do that
I with any neighbor. Geu. Hawley is a
I wan who keeps his promises ; he is a
I man who always speaks the truth, and
I not only in private life, but in politics;
I lie is an editor who believes what he
I says in his own newspapers; as author
I of “Beautiful Snow,” he has given us a
[poem which has added a new pang to
I winter. The public honor, public mon-
leys, church property—any thing and all
| things that are strictly public—arc safe
[in his hands. I have watched him
[many a time, as the contribution box
I went by, and I never saw him take any
thing out of it. Would that we had
I more such men in politics. Charity,
■ compassion, benevolence, are inborn in
I Gen. Hawley; he never Bends the tramp
I empty from his door, but gives him a
[note of introduction to me. But above
lull and beyond all, it can be said with
I entire sincerity that he is a square; hon-
les 1 man—a square, honest man in poli-
I tics, think of that—and I will remark
I here, in confidence, that he occupies an
l»jmighty lonesome position. General
I Hawley’s public aspect is as creditable
jis his private one. * * * His pub-
■uctrusts have been many and varied;
■ms record, in them all, is wholly with-
|Mt stain. He is a man against whose
Inonor and high principle not a word
r ln ' ,0 spoken. The presence of such
I . man in politics is like a vase of otiar
I;. r, ? c 1 s 'n a glue factory—it can’t ex-
■ inguish the stench, but it modifies it.
It? i ; ' iava I’Pfin saying about Gen.
IJ, TI have not meant to flatter, but
I I 10 fl’cak the plain and simple
liim .i • , V0 nut 8al( i anything about
liflf ™°' 1 wou 'd not say about a: y
l A Sreat Wheat Crop for 1880.
A iclegram from Cincinnati, October
says:
iea ^ seeding in Southern Illinois,
le f n ? an '* OMu is completed. Never
o l»r ,Q * 10 lliator y °T the country was
Hi„,p ac 1 ro P planted. The area in
4 n “'s, and >diaiia is from 50 to 100
u ... 8realer than that of any previ-
cun • Til8 appearance of the
°'” aui . 1J at present very promts-
's=iiPn 1U1 a localities where <he
, e eas made its appearance.
■ th. a r ^ a3 i^ 011 very favorable so
rou ‘h not being suflioient to
lie crL 8. row th of the grain. Should
ravha J 'J V1!i - ter wel1 . and meot with no
iht-at in ,u 1,1 tho spring, the yield of
far oecll 'al West in 1880 will
'ear. tP 01 tllan that of the present
‘til tha - pre3Btu high price of grain
t’teien P I08 P e ®l of a continued heavy
Ireativ. e ! nan d, have induced farmers
Fi«ritl!"r crea,e their usual breadth
•ain.” r ^' ‘ or w heat, and neglect other
It ifc 9 , a harber in Rue Montfetard,
ronkey net 8t mf t ’ Pari8 wh0 . kee P 3
liifro l- the other evening, as
|«r fell ... no cl, stomers about, the bar-
was soon awakened
-Jonkev faca and saw that the
1 J th °behu, n 8havi !\?, him - The monfc
| Bj. he would be barber, too.
a ‘h^t t ?M°' V 1 often a young. lady’t
fl'"eith»l. i! S al niost certain to turn
• ' her Hind or at the side.
A Puff for Florida.
A correspondent from Beauclerc
Bluff, Duval ceunty, writes to the Jack
sonville Union, saying:
“Twenty-five thousand orange trees
are set out in groves between this point
and the Mandarin postoffice, an area of
some four miles. Three thousand five
hundred of these trees are in bearing,
some of which were forty yearn old at
the time of the 1835 freeze. They were
frozen to the ground then, but never
injured since. Eight thousand oranges
have been picked in one season from
one of the said trees, and there are hun
dreds of trees in the number that pro
duce annually 4,000 oranges eaoh. One
grove of 115 trees is good for 400,000
oranges per year; one grove of thirty
trees, seventeen years old, pans out on
a yearly average 50,000 golden spheres.
One grove of mne-year old sweet seed
ling trees, forty-five in number, will
fruit to the tune- of 15,000 this fall.
There are others worthy of mention,
but enough has been cited to show the
unbeliever that we can and do grow
oranges successfully, within a forty
minutes ride of the metropolis of our
State, I will add that it is quite cer
tain that at least 5,000 of the non-bear
ers will bloom next spring. I have not
included in these figures any of the
large groves south of Mandarin post
office, or those upon ’he bank of Juling*
ton creek, nor any of those north of
here. Its a safe estimate to make, that
were their numbers added to the above,
the total would go far beyond 50,000
trees. And now another little item
and I’ll leave you on the frost line
orange question. I have not known of
a bearing tree or its fruit injured by any
of the cold winters during the past six
years in this community, and we raise
the choicest Northern grapes successful
ly; read our dailies on the day of nub-
lication; have great faith in the raging
canawl and ihe glorious future of our
peninsular home, and invite the honest
immigrant to a few more high and dry
eligible sites, that await his push, purse
and person.”
A Bloody Battle.
The battle of Torgau, fought by
Frederick the Great in 1760, is well
known to have been one of the most
murderously contested actions which
has ever taken place, but until lately no
trustworthy enumeration has ever been
given of the killed, wounded and mi s-
ing on either side, la the last number
of the Militar Wochenblatt tho organ
of the German general staff carefully
prepared tables are published of the
fosses suffered by the several Prussian
regiments of cavalry and battalions of
infantry engaged, and from these it ap
pears that the fifty-nine battalions
which took part in the action and which
numbered altogether 26,000 officers and
men, lost a total of 15,650 officers and
men, or about 60 per ceDt. of their ag
gregate effective strength. In the thir-
ty-uine battalions which fought under
tho personal direction and immediate
orders of the King, the proportion of
losses was even greater, so that, after the
action, the five battalions of grenadiers
had to be formed into one battalion,
the remnants of six battalions of two
other regiments being also temporarily
organized into one battalion. Of the
26,000 infantry soldiers who went into
action, 3,350 were killed, 7,956 were
wounded, and 3,130 were reported as
missing. Asa contrast to this terrible
proportion of killed, wounded and
missing, it may be mentioned that the
loss at Gravelotte was only 1-llth of the
whole number of troops engaged on
both sides, at Worth and Mars-la-Tour
1-Gth, at Spioheren l-8ih, at Koraggratz.
l-15th only, and at Magenta and Sol-
ferino 1-llth.
Disabled Soldiers.
The Legislature has passed an act do
nating money for the purchnso of arti-
cial limbs, to soldiers of the late war.
We learn that our new Comptroller
General, Capt. W. A. Wright—himself
a crippled soldier—offers to secure the
money for each one cntitled to it, with
out the expense of their visiting Atlan
ta. Send your addresses to him, he will
return the proper papers. When these
are properly filled out and sent to him,
with the soldiers power of attorney, to
draw tho money, ho will return it with
out charges of any kind.
The amounts allowed are, S1UU tor
leg above the knee; $75.below the knee;
860 for arm above the elbow; $40 below
the elbow.
Nancy Jane Pratt.
Nancy Jane Pratt, of Iroquois county.
Ill., ordered a hunter off her farm, and
received the saucy reply: ‘Ohyoua.nt
in any daDger; I ain’t huntin’ old
maids?’ She abruptly turned, went in
to the house, came out with a
opened fire or, the hunter and ki
his dog. The man threw up his hands
and y«lled: “Do you mean to murder
me?” The farmers wife answered.
Westminster.
We are not referring to the Abbey,
we are not writing an elaborate treatise
on the Presbyterian catechism. To do
this would be to interfere with the reg
ular press. .The catechism will no doubt
do its pari in civilizing the human race,
and the Abbey will have its admirers,
but we wish now to call attention to a
cotton mill, Westminster yarn mills, in
South Carolina. We referred to the
matter some days ago; since we have
found it more elaborately discussed in
the Atlanta Constitution. One’s imag
ination runs wild when one tries to pic
ture the great benefits which will accrue
to the South, if the half of what is
claimed is true, and one-half or nothing
is true.
These mills change, by very simple
operations, seed cotton into cotton yarn.
Much time, thought and money have
been consumed—we do not'say wasted
—seeking to invent a cotton picker,
just as it has also been employed in in
venting a type setter. Such an inven
tion would add to the wealth of the
cotton regions, as did the threshing ma
chines, the sewing machines and the
reapers add to the wealth of the grain
producing districts. Now, this West
minster mill does more than it is possi
ble for a cotton picker to do; tbe ad
vantages are far greater *han any one
has claimed for that future invention,
but it iu nowise interferes with it. By
all means, invent a picker if possible,
but in the meantime give some atten
tion to the Westminster mills.
It will be asked what is the cost of
the machinery. It is very slight. A
mill capable of doing the work for sev
eral miles around will not exceed in val
ue 85,000. If these statements are true,
and there is no reason to doubt them,
the South can turn ootton into yarns in
her own neighborhood, and every great
plantation will be a small manufactur
ing centre. Speed the Westminster
yarn mills.—Louisville Post and News.
“Oh, you ain’t in any danger; I *
huntin’ for fools,” and she brought he
gun ogam to her shoulder, while th
chap yelled louder than before. Hem
the husband put m w appenraran
and toed tho fellow off the premises,
’ll ♦
The Georgia State Fair at Mucon was
on one day amounted to 810,uw.
A Socialist Up to a Certain
Point.
I was traveling in a department of
the South, after the revolution of Febu-
rary. I met one day a mayor of a vil
lage,proprietor of a metairie.
“Sir,” said he to me, “what do they
mean down there at Paris by that word
‘communism ?' It is some sluggards’ busi
ness is it not? So, at least, our curate
says.”
"It is a system of partition,” replied
“invented once on a time by a
dreamer.”
“What did he dream ?”
“That the man who has a million
should share it with the commune."
His eyes brghtened.
“Not a bad dream, either,” said he.
“But further,” I resumed, "that the
man who has 100,000 francs should
abandon the half to his neighbor.”
"Well, he would still have enough
with the other half.”
“Then, the man who has 50,000
francs should come down to 25,000
francs, through a spirit of fraternity.”
The face of the mayor assumed a
thoughtful tinge.
“That may still do.”
“Lastly, that the man who possesses
25,000 francs”—
“Twenty-five thousand francs,” he in
terrupted, springing up with a bound,
“that’s the value of my farm : let him
who would have a vine stock belonging
to it, come and see it. He will see how
I will receive him at the end of my
musket.”
The quarrel of the two widows of
Elias Lispis, in a San Francisco ceme
tery, as to which should. decorate his
grave, was described in this column last
spring, The affair is now in a criminal
court, through the arrest of the surper-
ident ofn the cemetery. It transpires
that widow 1 drove widow 2 away
from the grave; that the superintendent,
enamored of widow 2 gave her a
burial plot, and secretly removed tho
remains of Lispis to it. Thus widow
1 went on decorating an empty grave
while widow 2 had tho real grave to
herself. Widow 2 could not keep so
pleasing a victory to herself, and the
story got out. The superintendent, fright
ened by this publicity, slyly returned
the remains to their first resting place,
and-declared that they had never been
disturbed. Widow. 2 got angry at
him for this act, and told all to the
police. An investigation followed, and
he is to be tried on a charge of grave
robbery.
The prospects were never so good as
at present for a lively winter in Wash
ington. This city of boarding and
lodging bouses is notorious for the great
supply of furnished rooms, and an ad
vertisement for rooms usually brings a
basketful of notes in reply. At the
present time however, the demand
promises to be so heavy that the supply
is withheld in anticipation of a rich
harvest when Congress comes. More
residences are being built than at any
one time for years. Members and Sen
ators are already coming here hunting
houses, intending to receive largely du
ring the winter. It being the winter
preceding the Presidential campaign,
politics are expected to be up in Con
gress continually, so that in all respects
Washington promises to be full of ex
citement.
©ticura
REMEDIES
Have speedily and permanently cured Humors
of the Skin and Scalp ot Children and Infante
aflliotedilnco birth.
The treatment prescribed in such eases Is mild
doses ot tho Cdticura Rrsolvrnt, a perfectly
safe yet powerful bleod purifier, and tho external
use of CuTicunA, tho groat skin cure. Tho Cu-
TiounA Soap should ho the only soop applied to
tho diseoaod skin foreleansing pur pesos.
HUMOR 0N~A CHILD.
Since Dirth Cured, after faithful Medical
Treatment had Failed.
MoBsra. Weoks k Potter: Gentlomen—My
little non, two yoari of age, has had a humor on
one side of his faeo sinoa ho was born, which
during tbe last tour months has spread over tho
entire side of the faoe, tho chin, e*r and side ot
the head. It must bavo itched and irritated him
a great deal, as ho scratched the surface all the
timo, no matter what was applied. I used many
romodies by advise of frionds and my physician
without benefit until I found Cdticura. which
immediately allayed the itching and infl .mmn-
tion, and entirely oared him.
Respectfully, JOHN L. SURRY,
With Walworth Manufacturing Co.
Boston, April 16,1878,
Noth.—Once cured, the skin may bo rondered
soft and fair by using Cuticura Soap for toilet or
nursery purposes.
CHILDREN AND INFANTS.
More Cures of Sklu and Scalp AfTccflc.iis by
the cuticura HenudleN.
Fred. Fohrer, Esq., Cashier Stook Growers' Na
tional Bank, Pueblo, Colorado, writes : "I am so
wall pleased with Ha offeota my baby that I
cannot afio d to be without it in my house It is
a, wonderful cure, and is bound to beoome v->iy
popular as soon as its vlitues are known to tho
Vt.,says in a letter dated May 28: “It works to
a charm on my baby's face and head. Cured the
head entirely, and has nearly cleaned the face
of sores. I bave recommended it to several, and
Dr Plant baa ordered it tor them ”
M. M. Chiok. Hiq.,11 Franklin Bt .Biston,
says: “My little daughter, eighteen months old.
has what the dootors call Eczema Wo bave
tried 'most everything and at last have used Cu
ticura, and she is almost a tevr child and we
feel very happy.”
prickly"beat.
Incidental to tlic Texan CUmnte.
Mosers. Weeks A Potter: Gentlemen—En
closed please find one dollar for a large box of
Ooticoba. The email one that I resolved some
time ego hoe been very officaoious, especially in
Priclrlj Heat or Rash, as some people oall it I
am noising it about. V oars truly,
THOMAS W.-BUCKLEY.
Macon, Texas, Sept. 22, 1378.
CuncunA is a most valuable external applica
tion. It hoals all cuts, bruises and abrasions of
the skin, restores the hair when destroyed by
Scalp diseases, removes dandruff and keeps tbs
scalp clean and the hair .oft and pliable. It la
as rgreeablo os it ie ofioetlve, and is ably assisted
in every eaee by tho Gutioura Soap, whieh ie par
tioul&rly recommended to mothora for cleansing
the akin and scalp of infants and children. Ie is
Toilet ea well as Medicinal, and is the meet fra-
rant and refreshing Soap for tho nursery and
inth of any yet prepared.
Parents have our assurance that those reme
dies contain nothing injurious to tbe youngest
infant, evidences of whioh may be found in the
certificates of Dr. Hayes and Prof. Merrick ac-
oompanying each remedy.
'The CimouBA Ranxmis ero prepared by
Weeks' A Potter, Chemists and Druggists, .160
Washington Street, Bostou, and are for Bale by
ell Drnggiets. Price of Cuticura, email boxes,
50 cents; targe boxes, con’einlng two and one-
bslf times tbe quantity of small, $1. Rrsolvrnt
(1 per bottle. Cuticura Soap, 25 cents; by
mall, SO cents; 3 cakes, 75 cents.
a*f\LLIAIC> They destroy ell tendency
^ to inflammation by drawing
VOLTAIC EHCEttCIBIO 'rom the svetom morbid or
Pi unwholesome matter, tbue
* preveoting or curing Rheu
matism, Neuralgia, and Solatica. Worn over the
pit of the8tomach, they prevent Aguo and Liver
Pains, Inflammation of the Liver and Kidneys,
Bilious Colic, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Cramps,
and Pains. nov7 tw w Im
J. T. CAHILL.
MANUFACTURER OF
IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS,
HOLLOWWARE, GRATES,
Mill Castings, Fencing, &c.
Architectural Work
- AND-
Building Castings
A SPECIALITY.
Office — Railroad Avenue, between
7th and 8th Streets,
Chattanooga, Tcnn.
jun28 tw8m
In connection with
our immonso stock, wo
have added e Milline
ry Department, whore
will always be found
a lull lino ol Fell and
Winter StyUs, em
bracing Trimmed end
Untrimmed Shapes in
Straw and Felt Hots.
8-e our New Stylo
Pattern Hats. This
department will be
undor the control of
Miss ABBiB WEBB,
assisted by
Mrs. E. BURNETT,
who will be pleased
see all of their
frionds Will con
stantly recoive ail of
the Latest Novelties
ss they appear.
GREAT OPENING
— OF THE —
GRYSTAL PALACE,
13 Shorter Block.
NEW STORE! NEW GOODS!
NEW STYLES IN
DRESS GOODS, CASH-
MERES, ALPACAS, LARGE
VARIETY CHEAP DRESS GOODS,
IMMENSE ASSORTMENT SIIAW LS,
CLOAKS REPELLANTS,LADIES'
UNDERWEAR, FLANNELS,
CANTONS AND DO
MESTICS, JEANS,
OASSIMEREB, BLANKETS, COMFORTABLES
Separate departments for Clothing, Boota,
Shoea and Hato. Complete .took Geni'e Fur
nishing Goods.
DAVIS & CO.
ootid tw wtf
Cell and see our
lino of Gtovee tefore
buying. The cheap
est line of Tbieo-
Button Kid Glovee ie
the city, that we war
rant. Ladies’ Neck
Wear, Ties, Bows,
Silk end Lace Fis-
chue, Collars and
Culls, Linen and
Silk Handkerchiefs,
Ilambuigs. Ribbons,
Hosiery and Ladies'
Linen. Lacoa of ail
kinds, Corsets, Dress
Trimmings, and ev
erything usually kept
in a first class Dry
Goods House.
Clocks! Tick! Tick! Tick!
ALLEN & McOSKEK.
JUST RECEIVED
A Large and Beautiful As
sortment of Clocks/
INCLUDING THE
LATEST AND MOST UNIQUE STYLES.
Prices Ranging from $1 to $15.
CONSTANTLY RECEIVING ALL THE LATEST
AND M03T NOBBY BTYLKB OF
BRIDAL PRESENTS, FINE JEWELRY,
Silverware, &c.
ALL GOODS SOLD ENGRAVED FREE BY US.
epp» twwtf
R. T. HOYT.
II. D. COTnRAN
HOYT & COTHRAN,
Wholesale Druggists,
ROME, GEORGIA,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF
GRASS A.1STD FIELD SEEDS,
INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD
ORASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (and Oats to arrive.)
Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures.
jallOtwwtf
HARDY, BOWIE & CO.,
WHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS,
BROAD STREET, ROME, GA.
WF, CARRY IN STOOK
RUBBER BELTING, 3 ply, 2, 2 1-2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 incheB
“ * “ 4 ply, 8, 10, 12 and 14 inches,
RUBBER PACKING, 1-8, 3-16 and 1-4 inches.
(^Strictly Best Goods Made.
HEMP PACKING—MANILLA HOPE—PACK I.KA TI1ER — CUT LA CINQS—
UPRIGHT MILL SAWS—CROSS CUT SAWS—ONE MAN CROSS CUT
SAWS—SAW SWAGES-FILES-BELT RIVETS-FINE HAMMERS—
WRENCHES, <fv., making Complete Line of Mill Furnishings,
OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RICHT.
Few young men are afraid of a yellow
jacket wh jn it has a girl in it.
James G. Dailey,
UNDERTAKER’S WARE-ROOMS,
(On eeond story)
96 Broad Street,
1879. FALL & WINTER TRADE. 1879.
New Goods. Fine Goods.
MRS. T. B. WILLIAMS,
M ILLIWER,
No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
in the past, [ am proud tn say that I am bettor prepared to attend to their went* than ever
before. I have now in store and to arrive Bonnets, Hats, Flowers, Plumes, Bilks, Velvet!, Plushes,
Ribbons, Ornaments, Hair Qoods, Zaphyrs, Combs, Notions, etc., ote., which I have selected in
person in the Northern markets. My Goods aro in tho Latest Styles, and I have my Trimming
dono with good material by experiencod mill mere. Call and examine my goods end gei my prices
ihasing elsewhero. (ootl7 tw —tf
A FINE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK
of Metallic, Walnut, Drained and Stained
Coffins, Burial Robes and Coffin Trltnmiegs. al
ways on hand. Neatest Hearses furnished for
funerals. All orders filled with dispatch, day
or night. Residence, corner Court and King
streets.
ALSO. DEALER IN
FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS.
jntStwtmertfi
beforo purch
ALBIN OMBERG,
Bookseller, Stationer & Printer
IVo. 33 Broad Street,
Has just received a Large Stock
CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC
l A LARGE STOCK WALL PAPER.
■WRITE FOE.SAMPLES AND PRICES.-®,
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