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©TOC M DWINELL. proprietor. $0 SERIES, "WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND MODERATION." Ccroocr ROME, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1879. FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOL, 18, NO. 118 fmititt and tSommetcial. 3NSOl.IDA.TED APRIL 10. 1876. hates of subscriptions. koh thf. weekly. «2 08 One 1 oo sit months-^ 60 Tlirpfl nioiitns KOlt THE TRI-WEEKLY. $1 00 One 2 00 e,\x x w Three months u„ald yearly, strictly In advance, the price !L Weekly Courier will toll SO. ' CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square™ 0 month. » 100 six months 12 00 twelve months 20 00 One-fourtL column one month ........ 7 60 0M .fourth column tl.roo months 16 Ot nnp-fourtli eeluran six raontlis 00 One-ionrth column twelve months 60 Ot Onc-lmlf column ono month . 15 00 One-half column tlirco months 27 00 Onc-lmlf column six months,... 60 00 One-half column twelve months 80 00 Onecolnmnone month.. 27 00 Oneeolnmn three months SO 00 One col nmn six months 80 00 Onecolnmn twelve months 120 00 The foregoing rules uro for either Woekly or TriAVccklr. When published In both papers, 60 SSpaJltlonal upon table rates. One square s 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.-®, apr»,tw-wly