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Courier. M dwinell, proprietor. “WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND MODERATION.” FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. IfW SERIES. ROME, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1879. VOL. 18, NO. 149 „«!• I i,I :;ul lets®. I rail; to rt'l id td-r d i« ( | ilUit'f (jputie* mril C»>gMWtial. ^NSOUPATBP APRIL 10,1878. ^fgSOFSUBSCRIPTIONS. F Oli THF. WEEKLY. One year """ J i oo SIX montlij- BO Three FOR the tri-weekly. . $4 00 One “ | 2 00 Si, mouths • i oo If J&l yearly. -WcUy In advance. the price 0 , weekly fanrlcr Will be«l 80. CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ouenaaroone mouth . * Oneiquorolliroo months ,’JJ oue square six months ““ Ouesquare twelve months....... 20 00 “e-tourth column one month .. 1 SO Oae-lbartli column three months 15 00 oo-lburlli column six months 27 00 fourth column twelve months SO 00 One-hnlf column olio month £ 00 Oi.Mi.lf column three months 27 00 One-half column six mouths... 60 00 One*half column twelve months. *0 00 Onecolumn ono month/.. Owcolunin three months - SO 00 Onecolumn six months... 80 00 Onecolumn twelve months 120 00 The foreuolng rates are for either Weekly or th Wppklv Wien pnbllsliml In both papers, 60 Seem, mhlltlonnl upon table rates. 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 ‘WHITE FOH SAMPLES AND PRICES.-