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M DWINELL, PROPRIETOR. "WISDOM, JUSTICE, AND MODERATION. jjjif SERIES. ROME, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1879. FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOL. 18, NO. 151 dtoutiet and jgg RATES of subscriptions. FOR THE WEEKLY. oney« ar< ; glx months Tliree months.. ..93 00 .. 1 00 .. 60 for the tri*weekly. 94 00 . 2 00 . 1 00 One year gix months Three months ,, Mld yearly, strictly In advance, the price ffily courier Win he«lW. contract rates of advertising. One square one month » J “ onesqaare three months 8 00 one square twelve months.....;. 20 00 oee-wrth column one month ... 7M one-fourth column three months 15 00 one-tourth celumn six months 27 00 One-fourth column twelve months 50 00 one-half column one month.. W 00 One-half column throe months 27 00 One-half column six months 60 00 one-half column twelve months 80 00 onecelumn one month ... 27 00 Onecolumn three months 60 00 Oneeolumnelx months.... 80 oo One column twelve months 120 00 The foregoing rates are for either Weekly or tyi" Weekly. When published In both papers,60 ™,n!u£,tmdltlonal upo n table rates. Pennsylvania Correspondence, The nfiraht Boom” on the Rise—Outlawry in Pennsylvania. LiaoNtKR Valley, Pa., ) Nov. 11,1879. f Editor Courier: That recent politi cal events and results in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere have given the Grant boom a boost is a ques tion now pretty definitely settled. The outlook, therefore, for the future of the Republic was nSVtor more gloomy. Tiie "stalwarts’’ are having things pret ty much their own way. We are now, more than ever, convinced that we were right four years ago when we took the ground that it would yet be necessary to hurl the Radioal party from power at the point of the bayonet. The tame submission of the Democratic party to fraud and perjury in 1876, is now bear- iag its fruit. We thought it was a mis take then; we are sure of it now. The sooner we prepare to meet what is in store for us, the better. The Republi can programme is evidently to inaugu rate Grant, irrespective of his election, tad then continue him in office. If the maamvering of the Radical leaders for the last two years doesn’t mean that, it rimply meariB nothing. The intention is to make Grant .the next President, or Dictator, rather, and the days of the Republic will'then be numbered. The first step in that direction was the seat- iegof the White House Fraud, who haa been drawing President Tilden’s. salary for the last three years. This move ment upon the part of the Radioal lead us, seconded by the Great Fraud him «lf, was simply made with a view to ascertain how much encroachm -;nt upon their rights the people would stand j wd having found out that we tamely submitted to that, we may now expect something still stronger. Every cir cumstance proves this argument to be correct. And a demonstration still more detri- ®ental to the rights of the State* and •o liberties of the people will now be made. Will we submit? (“at ib the question. God forbid. If we self-government is a thing of the Pest, ana we deserve the abject slavery st vill be morally certain to follow. 6 encroachments of Great Britain “Pen the rights of the colonies, which brought on a watftesuUing in our in- ependence, wero mild and even putri- ? lc w Ren compared with the present U ntl0U8 of the Radical leaders, 11. e / e ^ er3 with which they propose to su, US are now being forged out. T ‘ U . we wear them? We think out. 6 time has now arrived, we think, ' C T k 0 obliged to take the lca ‘ party on its own ground. I “°dy knows that the Radical par- I and 7 a ' Ways * )oen a brute force party , 1 it comes to a tept of brute force , ffee C the Radical party and the c mpi0U8 o1 ’ self-government in this I Th 'i' Ve ' lave uo f eare f° r the result, a this lest will be made, and that I The^t ° nB ’ We moral Iy certain. , 8 ru BBle is between self-government l l0t h &aaro ' ly ' The colors representing I 8 are now fl y' n g from their re | gj n lv (’ rai »parts. Let the battle be- . 6 are ready for action. We f orc , Want one—but if the issue is «ud« Up ° n . us w a are ready to meet it, Ou, „j t6 . rta ‘ n n °t a doubt of the result 8Uus »k l< ' 9 therefore is, stand to your the en« 60 1881 comes; and when my °P ens fire return it prompt ly and vigorously, and the God of bat tles will carry us through to complete triumph. Our cause is just, and must win. The arch-enemy of self-govern ment will be signally and ignominous- ly defeated if we are but true to our selves, and rally every available recruit. We now change the subject for a mo ment to say a word in regard to lawless ness in this State, We have silently watched its progress hero for a long time, and feel prepared to take the ground that it is on the increase. We can remember the time when acts of violence, such as so frequently shock communities, were almost unkuown; but now they are of almost daily occur rence. At Greensburg, our county Beat, about twelve o’elock on Monday night, November 3d, a row was kicked up which resulted in the shooting of Tom Clark, a mulatto and noted gambler. The circumstances, which we gathered in Greensburg a few days afterward, are as follows: Clark, in company with four white sooundrels, had been spend ing the night in drinking and gambling. About midnight a dispute arose over a bet that had been made, and after a few choice phrases had been exchanged, a general knock-down with chairs com menoed in the den. Finally, in order to have more room, we suppose, the party rushed out into the street, and afier cutting and slashing away for a while there, the fatal shot was fired by one Brady MoCullougb, than whom a more notorious rough never went un hung. McCullough had received a very ugly gash in the forehead previous to the time of his firing the shot that kill ed Clark; henoe, immediately after fir ing the fatal shot, he hastened to the of- fioe of Dr. J. W. Anawalt to have his wound dressed. The night was dark, and all* of these roughs claim to have been in blissful ignorance of the fact that any one was shot until the dead body was found in the morning. Of course they all knew that a shot had been fired, but claim that is all they knew about it till morning, which either may or may not be true. The parties were all intoxicated. The mur derer was lodged in jail to await his trial. Clark was shot through the heart, and must have died immediately. Sim ilar scenes, of late, enacted nearly all over our State. Over about Mount Pleasant, in this county, they are defy ing the law and resisting airest. There has been a howl set up over lawlessness at the South. This has been done by the Radical press here. We had better look at our ewn condition and mind our own business. In conclusion, the Stalwarts have car ried our State onoe more. "Money makes the mare go.” Our county tick et is elected, with the exception of the President Judge; he is a Republican. This is owning to the fact that the Re publican candidate—Judge Hunter— was rather popular, and Stewart, the Democratic candidate, rather objection able. Key-Stone. A Remarkable Woman- .1,3: Baltimore Qaiotte. A most remarkable woman died in Washington on Saturday last—a sort of link between the presente and the historic past. It was Mrs. Margaret Eaton, once the wife General John H. Eaton, secretary of war under President Jackson, and the veritable ‘Peggy whose social status brokeup one cabinet and came near destroying an admims- m this state, and was eighty-one years of age ot the time of her deatn. She first married an officer of the navy tration. She was born at Bladensburg named Timberlake. After his death she married General Eaton and became famous as one of the most beautiful women of the period. In the day of her glory she was more widely known and celebrated than Madame Patterson- Bonaparte. During Jackson’s adminis tration she did the honors of the white house, Mrs. Jackson being an invalid, And exeroised so eminent an authority that she made and unmade cabinets at her pleasure. She was politically and socially the most famous woman of America, and will ever stand alone as suoh, for the existence of any one paral lel is nowdays an impossibility. After the death of General Eaton and when she was a grandmother, Mrs. Eaton was for a third time married, to *n Italian dancing master, Buohagnam, who after wards eloped with her granddaughter, taking a good share of her money, and mant TtaW. where he lived in amu- Millions of Pleeons at the His* torio Pigeon Roost in Scott County, Ind. Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette. New Albany, Nov. 7.—To-day a party of hunters left this city for the celebrated Pigeon Roost, in Scott coun ty, where, it is said, acres of timber are covered nightly with wild pigeons. For the p_a3t soventy-five years this noted locality has been a roosting-place for pigeons, and millions of these birds congregate there nightly during the sea son of their visits to this section of the country. They fly away of mornings to their feeding places in the woods and fields of Indiana and Kentucky, distant from the roost in many instances from 100 to 300 miles returning again at night, the arrivals often continuing up to midnight. • The timber on thousands of acres covered by this roost, is broken down badly, large limbs being snapped off like reeds by the accumulated weight of the birds upon them. Throughout the entire night there iB heard the cracking and crashing of limbs, tho hum and flurry and drumming of wings, the explosion of fire-arms, and the con fusion and bedlamic thrashing sounds caused by people beating the birds from the trees with long poles ; but all this slaughter seems to make no diminution in the vast flocks that congregate at this roost. This Scott county pigeon roost is his toric ground. It was in this neighbor hood that the most barbarous slaughter that darkened the pioneer days of Southern Indiana occurred. In Septem ber, 1812, a party of thirty Potawotamie Indians made an invasion into this sec tion of the State. In the Pigeon Roost neighborhood was a settlement, with a total population of thirty souls. The Indians attacked this settlement, kill ing and scalped twenty-four of the thirty settlers, most of them women and chil dren, and then burning the bodies of their victims in the cabins, which they fired. Mrs. Beadle and her two chil dren, and three members of a family named Collins, were all that escaped. Mrs. Beadle carried the news to the set tlers in Clark county, and next day a large company of the militia started in pursuit of the savages, coming up with them just as they had reached the north bank of the Musoatic river in their canoes. The river was at high flood, and the pursuers, having no boats, were compelled to give up the pursuit. This was the last incursion of Indians made into Southern Indiana. In the local history of the State this savage slaughter has ever since been designated as the Pigeon Roost Massacre. The Planet Mars. N. y. Herald. Poets seem to take special interest in the planet Mars regarded as a miniature world. Tennyson long since sang of The snow poles of moonless Mars/’ and by the way, he is said to be angry with Professor Asaph Hall for spoiling this euphonious description, Wendell Holmes tells how '-The mows that glittered on the dish of Mare Ilavo melted, and the planet’l fiery orb Bolle in the crimeon «utumor of its year,” Albeit science has not been very prone to accept the “scarlet vegetation” theory of the French astronomer, at present it is spring time in the northern hemis phere of Mars and “fall’’ in the southern, yet the planet is as ruddy as we could expect it to be if both hemispheies were covered with rosy vegetation. It might be interesting to inquire where Charles Reade learned that (as he tells us in “The Coming Man”) Mars is rosy at certain months, and that “it is (not .“it might possibly be”) pink vegetation which gives that color at fixed periods.” Astronomy knows nothing about these certain months and fixed periods, though astronomers have observed so muon as this, that the more clearly the lands and seas of Mars are visible —in other words, the clearer the Martian sky the ruddier the plante lookB, irrespective altogether of the Martain seasons. m — w The death is announced, in Paris, at the ripe age of 94, of Mr. Dejean, the proprietor of the circus in the Champr Elysees and on th9 boulevards. Hi started in life as a butcher’s apprentice, and his good looks drew all the cooks in the neighborhood to tho shop of his masters, who, on retiring, left him the business. Having amassed a comforta ble fortune, he started the oirous, kept it going for a half a century, and real ized very large profits. He was remark able for his herculean strength and for his attachment to the Napoleon family which the late emperor requited by making Mr. Dejean an officer of the Legion of Honor. Of his strength, stories are told that border on the mar velous, in which fiction mingles very largely with fact. Thus it is stated that soon after starting the circus a tiger es caped from a menagerie he was exhibit ing, and made straight for him. De- jean quietly opened his arms, and then (yticura REMEDIES Haro speodily and permanently curod Humors of the Skin and Scaip of Children and Infanta a filiated sinco birth. The treatment preicrlbed in suoh caaes is mild doses ol tho Cunuuni Rebolvekt, a perfectly ■afe yet powerful blood purifier, and the external uao of CiJTiooRi, the great skin euro. Tho Cu- Ticuna Soap should be the only aoap applloil to tho diseased skin for oicaneing purposes. HUMOR 0N~A CHILD. Since BirtU Cured, after faithful Medical Treatment had Failed. Messrs. Weeks t Potter: Gentlemon—My little sod, two years of age, has bad a humor os one side of his face sines he was born, which during tbe lost tour months has spread over the ontire sido of tbe faee, the chin, ear and sido of the head. It must havo itched and irritated him a great deal, as he scratched the surface all the time, no matter what was applied. I used many remedies by advise of friends and my physician without benefit until I found Cuticura. which immediately allayed the itching and inflamma tion, and entirely cured him. Respectfully, JOHN L. SURRY, With Walworth Manufacturing Co. Boston, April 15,1878. Note.—Once cured, tho akin may bo rendered aoft and fair by using Cuticura Soap for toilet or nursery purposes. CHILDREN AND INFANTS. Mure Cures ol Skin ami Scalp Affections by the Cuticura Remedies. Fred, l-'uhrer, Etq., Caihter Stock Growers’ Na tional Bank, Puoblo, Colorado, writes: “I am so well pleased with its effeota on my baby that I cannot nffod to he without it in my house It 1. a wonderful cure, and is bound to become r. ry popular as soon a. Its viitucs are known to the masses.” J. B. Weeks, Esq, Town Treasurer, St. Ubans, Vt., say. In a letter dated May 28: "It Works to a charm on my baby*, faeo and head. Cured the head entirely, and has nearly cleaned the faoo of sores. I have recommended it to sororal, and Dr. Plant haa ordered it tor them ” M. M. Chick, Eiq-, 41 Franklin St., Boston, ■ays: “My little daughter, aighleeo months old, has what, the doetort call Ecsema. Wo have tried ’moat everything and at laat have used Cu- TicuttA, and she Is almost a now child and we feel very happy.” pricklTbeat. Incidental to tlie Texan Climate. Messrs. Weeks A Fottor: Gentlemen—En closed please find one dollar for a large box of Cuticura. The email one thdt I received some time ago has been very efficaoious, especially in Prickly Heat or Rash, as some people call It. I am noising it abont. Yours truly, THOMAS W. BUCKLEY. Macon, Texas, Sept. 22, 1879. tlon. It heals all cuts, bruises and abras tho skin, restoros tho hair when destroyed by Bcalp diseases, removes dandruff and keeps tho eealp elean and the hair soft and pliable. It is as agreeable ae it is effective, and Is ably assisted in every ease by the Cuticura Soap, which is par ticularly recommended to mothers for cleansing tho skin and scalp of infants and cbildrsn. It Is Toilet as well as Medicinal, and is the most fra- jrant and refreshing Soap for tho nursory and lath of any yet prepared. Parents have our assurance that these reme dies oontain nothing injurious to the youngest infant, evidences of which may be found in the eertifioates of Dr. Hayes and Prof. Merrick ac companying each remedy. Tho Cuticura Ranamxs sro prepared by Weeks A Potter, Chemists and Druggists, 380 Washington Street, Boston, and are for sole by all Drnggists. Price of Cuticura, small boxes 60 conta j targe boxes, containing two a-d one- half times the quantity of small, $1. IiasoLvmr $1 per bottle. Cuticura Soap, 25 cents; by mail, 30 oontsi 3 cokey, 76 cento. went to"ltafy, where he lived in afflu- -'hen he reopened them ence. Mrs. EatonhMresidedinW^h "ger fell dead at his feet, smothered Baoss®®? aF5 in bi ”“ tac ‘' suffered for the necessities of life. In a romance written some years ago hy Mme. Lasselle entitled “Magdalen, the Enchantress,” she figuresias the heroine. See will be laid to rest m Oak Hill cemetery to-morrow, where, she was crowned queen of the May sixty-five years ago, “Hqw are you Smith?” said Jones. Smith pretends not to Vnow him, and replies hesitatingly: “Sir, you have the advantage of me." "Yes,” retorts Jones, "I suppose anybody has that s f ot common sense.” Smith looks un- appy. HARDY, BOWIE & CO., WHOLESALE HARDWARE DEALERS, BROAD STREET, ROME, GA. WE CARRY IN STOCK RUBBER BELTING, 3 ply, 2, 2 1*2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 inches “ “ 4 ply, 8, 10, 12 and 14 inches. RUBBER PACKING, 1-8, 3-16 and 1-4 inches. *©*Strictly Beat Goods Made. HEMP PACKING/—MANILLA ROPE—LACE LEATHER—CUT LACINGS— VPRIOHT MILL SAWS—CROSS CUT SAWS—ONE MAN CROSS CUT SAWS-SAW SWAGES-FILES—RELT RIVETS—FINE HAMMERS— WRENCHES, <bc., making Complete Line of Mill Furnishings, OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RICHT. eOLLINe. They destroy all tendency ’v to Inflammation by drawing VOLTAIC B9EUClFI0from tho systom morbid or h. , _ TC -.c unwholesome matter, thus **JlST*bl»* preventing or curing Rheu matism, Neuralgia, end Sciatica. Worn over the it of the Stomach, they prevent Ague and Liver ’ains, Inflammation of the Liver and Kidneys, BiliouB Colic, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Cramps, and Pains. nov7twwlm Clocks! Tick! Tick! Tick! ALLEN & McOSKER JUST RECEIVED A Large and Beautiful As sortment of Clo: s, INCLUDING THE LATEST AND MOST UNIQUE STYLES. Prices Ranging from $1 to $15. CONSTANTLY RECEIVING ALL THE LATEST AND MOST NOBBY STYLES OF BRIDAL PRESENTS, FINE JEWELRY, Silverware, &c. ALL GOODS SOLD ENGRAVED FREE BY US. ecpD twwtf In connection with our immense etoek, wo have added a Milline ry Department, where will always bo found a lull line ol Fall and Winter Stylio, em bracing Trimmod and Untrimmod Shapes in Straw and Felt Hats. See our New Stylo Pattern Hats. This department will be under tho control of Miss ABBIE WEBB, assisted by Mas. E. BURNETT, who will be pleased to see all of their friends. Will con stantly rocelve all of the Latest Novelties as they appoar. GREAT OPENING — OF THE — GRYSTAL PALACE, 13 Shorter Block, U STORE! NEW HOODS! NEW STYLES IN DRESS GOODS, CASH MERES, ALPACAS, LARGE VARIETY CHEAP DRESS GOODS, IMMENSE ASSORTMENT SHAWLS, CLOAKS, REPELLANTS, LADIES’ UNDERWEAR, FLANNELS, CANTONS AND DO MESTICS, JEANS, OASSIMERES, BLANKETS, COMFORTABLES Separate departments for Clothing, Boots, Shoes and Hats. Complete etoek Gent’s Fur nishing Goods. DAVIS & CO. ootl4 tw wtf Call and soe our line of Gloves before buying. The cheap est line of Thtee- Button Kid Glovee in the city, that we war rant. Ladies' Neek Woar, Ties, Bows, Silk and Lace Fis- chus, Collars and Cuffs, Linen and Bilk Handkerchiefs, Hambntgs, Ribbons, Hosiery and Ladies’ Linen. Laces ol all kinds, Corsets, Dress Trimmings, and ev erything usually kept in a first olssa Dry Goods House. J. T. CAHILL, MANUFACTURER OF H AND BRASS CASTINGS, HOLLOWWARE, GRATES, Mill Castings* Fencing, &c. Architectural Work -AND- Building* Casting's A SPECIALITY, Offioe — Railroad Avenue, between 7th and 8th Streets, Chattanooga, Tenn. jun28 tw6m 1879. FAIL & WINTER TRADE. 1879. New Goods. Fine Goods. MRS. T. B WILLIAMS, M I TLm L.IIVE £1 , No. 61 Broad Street, Rome, Ga. in the past, I am proud to say that I am better prepared to attend to their wants than ever beloro. I have now in store and to arrive Bonnets, Hats, Flowers, Flumes, Silks, Velvets, Plushes, Ribbons, Ornaments, Hair Goods, Zephyrs, Combs, Notions, eta., etc., which I have seleoted in person in the Northern markets. My Goods are in tho Latest Styles, and I have my Trimming dono will, good material by experienced milliners. Call and axamlne my goods and get my prices before purchasing elsewhere. ( wti7 tw wif James G. Dailey, UNDERTAKER’S WARE-ROOMS, (On second story) 96 Broad Street. R. T. HOYT. H. D. COTHRAN HOYT & COTHRAN, ■Wholesale Druggists, ROME, GEORGIA., HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD W GRASS AND FIELD SEEDS, INCLUDING CLOVER, TIMOTHY, HERDS’, BLUE AND ORCHARD GRASS, BARLEY AND RYE, (and Oats to arrive.) Which they Offer to the Trade at Lowest Possible Figures. jul 10 twwtf A FINE AND WELL SELEtiTBD STOCK of Metallic, Walnut, Grained and Stained Colins, Burial Robes and Coffin Trimmings, al ways on hand. Neatest Hearses furnished for funerals. All orders filled with dispatch, day or night. Residence, corner Court »nd King streets. ALSO, DEALER IN FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE OF AU KINDS. jul 5 twt marie ALBIN OMBERG, Bookseller, Stationer & Printer No. 33 Broad Street, Has just received a Large Stock CROQUET SETS, BASE BALLS, ETC A LARGE STOCK WALL PAPER. tap WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES.-** aprt.tw-wly