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A Startling Possibility.
Hew Colorado Slay Voiat a President of
Her Otvu upon tlilsTBedeviled
tldiintry,
, clir«" , l
Denver Nsws.
If the Republican leaders of Colorado
*ere as rich in pluck and brains as
they are in casta they might possibly
capture tho White House next year
and install Mr. Chaffeo as President of
the United States.
Eyerybody familiar with the Consti
tution knows that in case no Presiden
tial candidate reoeives a majority of all
the electoral votes cast, the election is
tbroivn into the House of Representa
tives, where the vote is taken by States
and a majority of States elects. Thus,
1 seventeen of New York’s thirty-three
iongressmen weuld cast her vote, and
iu: single Congressmen would cast our
I vole, taut they would be equal. In 1824
I John Quincy Adams was elected in this
I way. Jackson, Adams, Clay and Craw
ford were all candidates for President,
I Jackson received by .far the most popu-
I hr as well as the most electoral votes,
) did not have a majority of all
I the electoral votes cast, arid the election
I was thrown into the House. Each of
I the four candidates controlled the Con'
I gressional delegations of certain States,
| and finally the Clay States united with
| the Adams States in the celebrated
gain and sulc,” and elected Adams,
I who made Clay Secretary of State. This
l*as constitutional, taut it shocked the
■country’s censs of fairness, and four
Ijears afterward Jaokson was tri-
lnmphantly elected and got the office.
|ln 18G0 there wero four candidates
l*pin, but it was not taken into the
IHouse simply because Lincoln got more
lelectoral votes than Douglas, Breckin-
judge and Bell combined, w hen there
l ,te two candidates, only one is bound
|to have a majority, and it can not go to
the House.
Hayes, with tho aid of fraud, got ono
JDajority of the electoral college, or 185
j>184 votes for Tilden. Had Colorado’s
wee votes been cast for Chaffee, Hayes
would have had only 182, and there
P™ have no election. The election
pould have gone to tho House. Sup'
.1 parties are ns equally divided
P am ■ Suppose the Colorado Repub-
I Wis split off from their party on the
Indian questions and nomi-
nii r L^ or P re8 'dent, carrying the
fnt.L,, an( i throwing the election
L, ' House ? The Congressional ma-
r;yof eighteen States is Republican
f °.‘eighteen it is Democratic. This
f without counting Colorado or Indi-
17; i" latter State, De La Maty;
“ e palanco of power between six
rMam^ 10 s ' x Republican Con-
would tie and kill the
lr.,a ??tState by insisting on casting
U»°T L 9 hM0 or Bonae other Green-
t.j • .this would enable Judge Bel
Iil» ,i ne l , ho y° le of Colorado, to
Ilict .;, he ®l c °tion of Chaffee or to
tttieP -j^ 8 . ^publican or Demo-
I.DuKl,' e8ld ? ntia l candidate. Being a
e woulJ Ba Y to the eighteen
|i 0D ° t L a . lc States that they could either
PrUh»(r lr - CttDd ^ ate ft °d vote with him
L.. ea .°n a platform of unlimitod
™ lllno sdwer and the removal of tho
Ptefnr’tk t8 n e cafi t the deciding
^ e Pnhlioan candidate.
^ion nfTi ay . T Go ! ora d° would get pos-
‘ P the National Government and
luch « 8, lver and Indian ideas.
Cliti P.' 10 ? would be one of shrewd
fcanshin n P rinci Ples and wise states-
lot th e bonanza politicians have
PtuafortimV? de / ra y the expenses,
L , nal °Iy they are short of the
T Wvilo T destined to grope along
k.a, ., nt y- and the Chaffee
Her out * 1 P reaeent constituted, will
Is New a, v ,e V **• Randall shows,
fid under n? r n pccch ’ that there
C a5l 00OMnnK ep, j' )lican adminietra
pilether«k °°l oP Southern claims
p«ie con t T- b °® n paid during Dem.
ptstives W ‘il^e House of Re
F> U MoE 0 ® 0 - 000 . and the
^'i-an party.' 000 ’ 000 against the
Can a State be Sued?
Interesting Case From Alabama Ar
gued in the United States Su
preme Court.
Washington Post, Octobei SO.
The case of the South nnd North
Alabama Railroad Company against
the State of Alabama, and from the Su
preme Court of that State on writ of er
ror, was argued yesterday by Messrs.
Thomas G. Jones and Samuel F. Rice
for the plaintiff, and submitted on the
brief of Senator J. T. Morgan for the
State. When Alabama was admitted
into the Union, in 1819, five per cent, of
the prooeeds of the sales of public lands
were reserved for building railroads un
der the direction of the Legislature of
the State. Tho State received over
$800,000 of this fund and loaned it to
certain railroads. The plaintiff built a
road from Decatur to Montevallo, Ala.,
in consideration of a promise of the
State to give it a certain amount of this
fund. At the time of the act of the
State Legislature appropriating the fund
was passed, a citizen or domestic cor
poration had the light to sue in its own
courts. The railroad company brought
suit, and afterwards the Legislature re
pealed the statute authorizing such
Buite, and the Alabama Supreme Court
sustained the dismissal of the suit on
the ground that the repealing act took
away the jurisdiction of the courts to
further entertain the suit. The plain
tiff contended that this was a violation
of the contract, and that this court has
jurisdiction to compel the State court to
carry out the State laws existing when
the contract was made. If the plaintiff
is sustained the dicision will effeot all
debtor States whose laws, at any time,
gave a right of suit, or other means of
obtaining payment. Senator Morgan,
in his brief for the State, claimed first:
That the State Chancory Court had no
jurisdiction to hear and determine a
suit against the State after the passage
of the act of December 18,1874; that
the State courts having passed on no
Federal questions nor denied any right
secured to the plaintiff by the laws or
Constitution of the United States, this
court has no jurisdiction on the appeal;
that the State being a.sovereign power,
tho United States has no right to extend
over it the jurisdiction of its courts.
The eleventh amendment to the Consti
tution is stated to be an express abridge
ment of the judicial power of the United
States, and designed to leave it to the
States to determine for themselves in
what cases they would consent to be
sued in iheir own courts, and to deny
the right of any person to sue n State
without such consent.
Repre
- dif-
Re-
Brooklyn’s Death Rate.
New York Herald.
A report showing the mortality in the
city of Brooklyn for the first six months
of 1879, ending June 28, has been made
to the Board of Health of that city by
Dr. Wyckoff, Register of Vital Statistics.
During the period named there were Jy
310 deaths in Brooklyn, being 365 more
than occurred in the corresponding pe
riod ef 1878. This is equivalent to a
weekly average of 207 deaths. The
copulation this year is estimated at
>64,448. Theie were 1,140 deaths from
zymotic diseases and 124 from violence.
From diphtheria the increase of deaths
was 37; in the last five years and a half
this disease has carried off 3.936 persons
—fully six per cent, of all deaths regis
tered during that period. Dr. Wyckoff
says: “This enormous loss of life as
sumes the magnitude of a pestilence,
and merits the fullest attention and the
most strenuous efforts for its future re
duction. The greatest enemy,” he says,
“to this and similar diseases is an un
compromising purity of surroundings
No epidemic can resist clean houses,
clean air and clean water.”
On the subject of suicide the Register
gives the following interesting statistics:
“In two nnd a half years there have
been 118 suicidal deaths. Of these 89
were males, 29 females; 73 were mar
ried, 27 single, 7 widows, 6 widowers,
and of five the oopjugal condition was
not known. Of the unmarried 21 were
bachelors and 6 spinsters; of the mar
ried 56 were males and 17 females.
Remarkable presence of mind was
recently shown by a miner near Potts-
ville, Pa. He was employed in a shaft
on Sharp Mountain. He had lighted a
fuse and was climbing to the surface by
means of pegs in the Bide of the shaft.
When within a few foet of tne top one
of the pegs gave way and the unfortu
nate man fell to the bottom, thirty feet
below. Ono of his thighs was broken
and the splintered bones were pushed
through two pairs of pantaloons. Not
withstanding his terrible injuries, he
had sufficient presence of mind to crawl
to the lighted fuse, which had burned
to within a few inches of the charge,
and smother it. If he had not done
this he would have been blown to
pieces when the explosion took place.
He then crawled back to one of the earth
buckets, got into it without assistance,
nnd was hoisted to the surface.
Knoxville, Tenn.. Tribune: The ques
tion to be settled before 1880 is this.
Was the Democratic party organized
for the good of the people or to secure
tho elevation of a few leaders? When
that question has been properly decidea
we will be as strong as ever, and can
present a better front than we ever did
before. Personal ambitions must make
way for principles hereafter.
Senator Vanco at Gberaw, S. C.
Cheraw, Nov. 6.—The fair of the
Pee-Dee Agricultural and Meohanical
Association was opened yesterday. To
day there was an immense concourse of
people present. 8enator Vance of North
Carolina, came this morning. He was
escorted by a large number of people to
the fair grounds, where he was enthusi
astically received and entertained,
At 1 o’clock Senator Vance addressed
the anxious crowd. His subject was
that of agrioulture, its power and in
fluence upon the prosperity and happi
ness of the nation. Tho address was re
plete with philosophical thought and
practical advice to those who till the
soil.
To-night the Senator lectured on the
political situation, reviewing the his
tory of the country and the tendency of
the Republican party to centralize the
Government and form a despotism. He
believed that this would never be con
summated, that Gen. Grant might be
the nominee of the Republican party,
but would never he President again.
He said a desperate effort would be
made in 1880 to wrest this State from
the control of the Democrats, und that
South Carolina should he the last State
in the South to break the Democratic
column, but Bhould remain solid and
invincible. He was hopeful that in
1880 a Democratic President would be
elected, and gave convincing reasons
for the faith that was in him. He ex
pressed. no preference for any man as
the nominee of the Democratic party.
An Anti-Fat Spring.
While surveying in the mountains
northeast of Anaheim laBt year Major
Wm. P. Reynolds encountered a man
who had worked for him in former
years. He failed to reoognize him",
jowever, until the stranger explained
who he was. He was then a man of
about two hundred pounds weight,
whereas he weighed three hundred and
forty pounds when in the Major’s em
ploy. The secret of his reduced size
was freely given. A short distance up
the mountain wob a spring, the waters
of which contained some mineral anti
fat properties. Did the Major want to
loose some of the superfluous flesh
which incumbered him ? He did. He
drank the water, and in ten days his
weight had been reduced twenty-five
pounds. He continued drinking the
water until from two hundred and ten
pounds he was reduced to one hundred
and seventy pounds, his present weight-.
This was accomplished without any
violent action on the part of the water.
Major Reynolds will obtain water from
the spring and forward it to the Smith
sonian Institute at Washington for
analysis. The spring is about sixteen
miles from Anaheim, easily accessible,
and if analysis establishes the fact that
there is nothing to be apprehended
from using the water, many obese per
sons will avail themselveB of the op-
jortunity to try nature’s remedy.—Ana-
leim (Cal.) Gazette.
Burdette’s Recollections.
Yesterday I watched the happy boys
of Moncton, down on the river bank,
sliding down the long muddy inoline,
ending with a plunge into the water
that was a littlle thicker than the banks
they slid down. I remember the game
with vivid distinctness. How often I
have played it in my days of innocence.
Coasting wasn’t a circumstance to it.
And this mud bank sliding has been
popular among boys in all ages and
countries.
The fun comes in when you slide over
clam shell.
One boy has just glided over a Bhell
now. I can hear him clear here, and
I think he is about two miles and a halt
away. I cannot hear very distinctly
just what he is saying. I remember the
formula as perfectly though as if I had
only ceased to study it yesterday.
Jersey Mosquitoes.
“Was ye iver in Jersey, in the sum
mer season ?” said an Irishman to a
friend. “Pon my soul I was there onct,
an I thought I wud be davoured. It
was a hot night and I raised me window
to catch a whiff of braze an’ instead I
was attacked by murderin’ devils wid
prongs in ’em, It was a slap here and
a kiok there and a scratch ivery where.
When completely exhausted wid em I
giv’ me body for to feast the cannibals
when bad luck to thim I the murderin’
imps commenced singing in me ear, ‘We
won’t go home till mornin.’ An’ well
they kept their word, bad luck to thim !
sez I to mesalf, as I carried me skeleton
out o’ the house in the mornin’."
(yticura
REMEDIES
Hare speedily and permanently cured Ilumore
of the Skin and Scalp of Children and Infanta
sfHlqted since birth.
The treatment preiorlbed in euoh cacoa iamild
doaea ot the Coriouna Resoovkht, a perfectly
•afe yet powei ful bleod purifier, and the external
oae of Curicuiu, the great akin cure. The Cu-
ticuma Soap should be the only soap applied to
the diieaeed skin for cleansing purpesos.
HONOR ONA CHILD.
Since Birth Cared, after lhlthfhl Medical
Treatment had Pnllcd.
Messrs. Weeki A Potter: Gentlemen—My
little son, two years of age, has had a hnmor on
one eide of hie face sines he was born, which
daring the lset lour months has spread over the
entire eido of the face, the chin, ear and side of
the head. It muat have itehod and irritated him
a great deal, ai ha seratohed the surfaeo all the
time, no matter what waa applied. I used many
remedies by advise of friends and my physician
without benefit until I found Coticdra, which
immediately nllnyod the itching and Infl .tarna
tion, and entirely cured him.
Respectfully, JOHN L. SURRY,
With Walworth Manufacturing Co.
Brston, April IS, 1878.
Note—Onee cured, the skin may bo rendered
soft and fair by using Cuticurs Soap for toilet or
nursery purposes.
CHILDREN AND INFANTS.
More Cures ol Skin nud Scalp Affections by
the Cutlcara Remedies.
Fred. Fohrer, Esq., Cashier Stook Growers’ Na
tional Bank, Pueblo, Colorado, writes: “I am ao
well pleased with its effeots on my baby that I
cannot afford to bo without it in my houso. It is
a wonderful cure, and la bound to become very
popular ai soon as its virtues are known to the
A dying saint once quaintly said:
‘I have no fear of going home, God s
finger is on the latch, and I am ready
for him to open the door, It is but the
entrance to my father’s house." And
said another: “Why should I shrink
from dying? It is the funeral of all my
sorrows and evils, and sins, and the per
fection of all my joys forever.
There is a pocket telephone stretched
aoross from the house of a young
man in Kalamazoo to the window o
his sweetheart just opposite. The are
to be married soon, and it is a touching
sight to watch the little sparrows perch
on the string and peok at the taffy as it
slides along between their toes.
In eunnoction with
purfmmensestock, we
have.added a Milline
ry Dopor I man 1, whnro
will always he found
a lull line oi Fall and
Wintor Styles, em
bracing Trimmed and
Untrimmed Shapes in
Straw and Felt Hats.
Bio our New Stylo
Patlorn Hats. This
department will be
under the oontrol of
Mias ABBIE WEBB,
aeslstod by
Mbs. E. BURNETT,
who will be pleasod
to. see all or their
friends Will con
stantly receive all of
tho Latest Novelties
as they appoar.
GREAT OPENING
-OF THE-
GRYSTAL PALACE,
13 Shorter Block.
NEW STORE! NEW (MS!
NEW STYLES IN
DRESS GOODS, CASH
MERES, ALPACAS, LARGE '
VARIETY CHEAP DRESS GOODS,
IMMENSE ASSORTMENT SHAWLS,
CLOAKS, REPELLANTS, LADIES’
UNDERWEAR, FLANNELS,
CANTONS AND DO
ME,'mes, JEANS,
CABSIMBRBS, BLANKETS, COMFORTABLES
Separate departments for Clothing, Boots,
Shoes and Hats. Complote stock Gent’s Fur
nishing Goods.
DAVIS & CO.
oct14 tw wtf
Call and see our
lino of Glovss tefore
baying. The cheap
est line of Thiee-
Button Kid Gloves in
the oity, that we war
rant. Ladies’ Neck
Wear, Ties, Bows,
Bilk and Laos Fis-
ehns, Collars and
Cuffs, Linsn and
Bilk Handkerchiefs,
Hambutgs, Ribbons,
Hosiery and Ladies’
Linen. Laces oi all
kinds, Corsets, Dress
Trimmings, and ev
erything usually kept
in a first olass Dry
Goods House.
R. T. HOYT.
11. D. COTIIRAN
J. 8. Weeks, Esq, Towu Treasurer, St. Alhani,
Vt., says in a letter dated May 28: “It works to
a oharm on my baby’s face and bead. Cured the
head entirely, and hat nearly cleaned the face
of sores. I have recommended It to several, and
Dr. Plant hoi ordered it lor them.’’
M. M. Chick, Esq., 41 Franklin St., Breton,
says: “My little daughter, eighteen months old,
has what the doctors call Ecsema. We Lavo
tried ’molt everything and at list have used Co-
ticura, and ahe is almost a new child and we
feel very happy.’’
prickly"beat.
Incidental to tlto Texan Climate.
Messrs. Weeks A Potter: Gentlemen—Ea-
eloeed please find one dollar for a large box of
Cuticdba. The small one that I received tome
time ago has been very offlcaoioas, especially in
Prloklj Heat or Raih, as some poople call it I
am noising it about. Yours truly,
THOMAS W. BUCKLEY.
Macon, Texas, Sept. 22, 1873,
CuTionr.A is a most vsiusblo external appliea.
tlon. It henlB all cats, bruitcB and abraiionn of
the skin, restoros tho hair whon destroyed by
Scalp diseatos, removes dandruff and knepa the
•ealp clean nnd tho hair soft and pliable It is
as agreeable os it is effective, and Is ably assisted
in every case by the Catloura Soap, which it par-
ticularly recommended to mothers for cleansing
the skin and scalp of infants and children. It it
Toilet OS well st Medicinal, and is the mist fra-
S rant and refreshing Soap for the uursory and
atb of any yet prepared.
Parents have our sisurance that thoso rente
dies contain nothing injurious to the youngest
Infant, evidences of which may be found in the
certificates of Dr. Hayes and Prof. Morrick ac
companying each remedy.
The Curionni Rmenixs ere prepared by
Weeks A Potter, Chemists and Druggista, 360
Washington Street, Boeton, and are for sale by
all Druggista. Price of CuvtcvnA, small boxes,
50 cents; large boxes, containing two and one-
half times the quantity ol email, fl. Rr.soovsar
$1 per bottle. CcviounA Soap, 25 cents; by
mall, HO cents; 3 ctksi, .75 cente.
HOYT & COTHRAN,
Wholesale Druggists,
ROME, GEORGIA.,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF
GRASS AND FIELD SEEDS,
INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD
GRASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (nnd Outs to arrive.)
Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures.
JnllOtwwtf
Clocks! Tick! Tick! Tick!
ALLEN & McOSKER.
Atftl LI kin. They destroy all tendency
UUi-MltlS' t 0 inflammation by drawing
VOLTAIC (CjELICTHOIrom the system morbid or
pi . _«t unwholesome matter, thus
preventing or caring Rheu
matism, Nsurslgla, and Sciatica. Worn over the
lit of the Stomaoh, they prevent Ague and Liver
’aint, Inflammation of the Liver and Kidneys,
Billons Colic, Dyspepsia, Indignation, Cramps,
and Pains. nov7 tw wlm
J. T. CAHILL,
MANUFACTURER OB
IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS,
HOLLOWWARE, GRATES,
Mill Castings, Fencing, &c.
Architectural Work
- AND —
Building Castings
A SPECIALITY.
Offioe — Railroad Avenue, between
7th and 8th Streets,
Chattanooga, Term
jun28 twfim
James G« Dailey,
UNDERTAKER’S WARE-ROOMS,
(On second story)
96 Broad Street,
A FINE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK
of Mstallio, Walnut, Grained and Stained
CoBnt, Burial Robes and' Coffin Trimmings, al
ways on hand. Neatest Hetrset furnished for
funerals. All orders filled with dispatch, day
or night. Residence, corner Court und King
■treete.
ALSO, DEALER IN
FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS
jul5twtmar10
JUST RECEIVED
A Large and Beautiful As
sortment of 01o; s,
INCLUDING THE
LATEST AND MOST UNIQUE 8TYLE8.
Prices Ranging from $1 to $16.
CONSTANTLY RECEIVING ALL THE LATEST
AND MOST NOBBY STYLES OF
BRIDAL PRESENTS, FINE JEWELRY,
Silverware, &c.
ALL GOODS SOLD ENGRAVED FREE BY US.
sop# iwwkf
HARDY, BOWIE & CO.,
WHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS,
BROAD STREET, ROME, GA.
WE CARRY IN STOOK
RUBBER BELTING, 3 ply, 2, 21-2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7 and 8 inches
“ “ 4 ply, 8, 10, 12 and 14 inches.
RUBBER PACKING, 1-8, 3-16 anil 1-4 incheB.
JSy-Strictly Best Goode Hade.
HEMP PACKING—MANILLA ROPE—LACE LEATHER—CUT LACINGS—
UPRIGHT MILL SAWS—CROSS CUT SAWS— ONE MAN CROSS CUT ■
SA WS—SAW SWAGES—FILES—BELT RIVETS—FINE HAMMERS—
WRENCHES, itc., making Complete Line of Mitt Furnishings.
OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RICHT.
marC twntt
1879. FALL & WINTER TRADE. 1879.
New Goods. Fine Goods.
MRS. T. B. WILLIAMS,
M ILLINER,
No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
T HANKING MY MANY CUSTOMERS FOR THE LIBERAL PATRONAGE GIVEN ME
in the past, I am proad to say that I am better prepared to attend to their wants than ever
before. I have now in .tore and to arrive Bonnete, Ilats, Flowers, Flumes, Silks, Velvets, Plnshes,
Ribbons, Ornaments, Hair Goods, Zsphyrs, Combs, Notions, etc., eto., which I have selected in
person in tho Northern markets. My Goods are in the Latest Styles, and I have my Trimming
done with good material by experienced milltuers- Call and examine my goods and gel my prices
before purchasing elsewhere. (m-tlT tw wtf
ALBIN OMBERG,
Bookseller, Stationer^ Printer
IVo. 33 Broad Street,
Has just received a Large Stock
CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC
A LARGE STOCK WALL PAPER.
apr9,tw-wly
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