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VOL. VI. NO. l.»05. • CORPUT CANED. ______ t Our Senator Gets it From a ” Committee. j NO PUBLIC EXECUTIONS ' e - f The Manufacture of Liquor t Prohibited in the County a of Carrol. ® t Special to The Tiibune Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 12.-The princi « pal work of the last two days of the ses-- * eion will be senate action in concurrtnn t in house bills and house concurring t on senate bills. Just now the question 1 in special controversy is the school bill a providing for quarterly payments. As has been the case ever since the question has come up there have been a variety of I Views on this subject, every man having a different idea of how the etd could be ‘ attained. All the different members are wo king to secure quarterly ttayaSient of 1 teachers. The friends of the (measure in 1 the house think that the only l , way, that 1 is the only practical way, to secure it is to close the schools if nectsftary, while I the members of the senate believe that i b ; advancing certain sums of money from > other funds to the school fund quarterly i payment can be brought about without 1 any suspension of the school. The 1 house is perfectly willing to agree to this ' if it can ba done, but the prevailing opin ion there is that it cannot settle the mat- 1 ter. It is now in conference and what will be the result nobody can tell. Another matter in conference now is the bill providing penalties, for crimes. It will be remembered that Mr. Hall had quite a voluminous bill passed in the house in the first session anA the senate had a substitute which wasfery brief indeed. This substitute, howevpr, does not meet the approval of the house and tbe result is another conference and th? probability is that they will not agree. • Among the senate biils which passed the bouse was Mr. Clay’s bill prohibiting i* vr —■ u "aai.-x/aiey J oil. —for election contests. The senate had a pretty lively debate over tbe bill prohibiting the manufacture •of liquor in Carroll county. It was claimed that, tbis was unconstitutional ’ but it wss shown that this law was in ef fect io other counties of the state and the billpissei. / Tne dependent pension bill of Mr. Sears, of Webster, which provides for the submission of the question to the people was passed by the requisite two thirds mej >rity. Senator Oorput was presented tbis morning with a very handsome gold by the members of the sen ate fl nance committee. THAT PHYSICAL POOL- The Legislative Committee Makes a Re • port. Special to tbe Tribune. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 12.—Some time ago tne legislature appointed a joint committee to investigate the so-called physical pools among railroads. •x, Today that committee made its report as follows : “ That there exists, with headquarters in Atlanta, an association composed of nearly all the southern railway ar-d steamship companies known as the Southern Railway and Steamship Asso < oistion. -Wtrat is known as a physical pool is really, an allotment of cot.on 1 freights. The intention is seemingly to 1 protect the any the limit of their the weaker ' ’ rfrete* l * -n»ce ] mit of its allotment. It is claimed that (hero is no penalty for non-compliance. This agreement would seem to discour age improper discrimination indu'gad in heretofore and it can in no way injure the p’apter or cotton shipper, but might, under some circumstances, result* in ower freight rates. In n > instanoa can a road refuse proffered freight. The com mitter concluded this report with the suggestion that no legislation is neces sary. THE CHIEF GOTiMAD And the Mayor Forgot How He Did When in College. Special to The Tribane. Athkns, Ga., Dec. 12.—The college •boys and their friends, including nearly .all of Athens, are in a fever of excite ment over the treatment accorded them by Chief of Police Davis and Mayor Tuck, whom they condemn in no uncer tain tones. The trouble begin Saturday night, when the college boys celebrated in a rather noisy but innocent manner their football victory won in Augusta. About 11 o’clock Chief Davis very ar bitrarily ordered all student off the streets, and because of a protest arrested Holcombe Bacon, of Atlanta. Walter Harris, son of Hon. Nat Harris, of Macon, remarked: "This is a nice case to arrest a man on,” and for it was also arrested. Waile they were being taken to the polios station an electric light , was knocked out. Harris was tried THE ROME TRIBUNE. yesterday by Mayor Tuck, Bacon see absent on account of sickness. At tbe trial W. T. Tuggle and Cbisolin Ferril), or LaGrange, both bad cases made . against them. Henry Porter, pt Atlanta, and D. C. Barrow, son of ex Senator Pope Barrow, of this city, were fined $25 each for refusing to testify. Harris was fined SSO. Gordon Hiles, of Rope, was tried for disorderly conduct, but nothing | against him was proven and the case Was dismissed. Almost the entire city is indignant that the cases were made and such ex cessive fines imposed. All will appeal tbeir cases to the council. Tbe college ' boys have often created much more dis tuibance without beiug molested. Chief Davis appears to have lost his humor, and Mayor Tuck stuck to bis chief. ROSEATE RESOLUTIONS. Legislator Camp's Coming Marriage tCauses Talk In the House. Specia*. to Tbe Tribune. 4.TI.AKTA, Ga., Deo. 12 —The house passed a resolution tendering Joe Camp, about to be married, sincere congratula tions today. The resolutions expressed the hope that the bark which bears bis fair bride and himself across the sea of life may meet only fair winds till it strikes anchor at last on the golden sands of tbe further shore, and that tbe hearts now liked may live and love forever on the sweet shores of eternal rest. Mr. Camp made a speech in acknowl edging tbe tribute that was a beautiful tribute to women. A COLD WAVE ■Will Add to tbe People Who are Sneezing at the Grip, Yesterday was a scorcher, when yon stood where the sun’s rays fell upon you, and the thermometer registered in the neighborhood of summer heat. Last night was ra her chilly with a drizzing rain, and tonight will be cold. - So' says “old Prob.” And the hundreds of people in the city who are following the style and swear they are nearly dead,with the grip will_ 'vMcuuragenmtc their disease or even for pneumonia. These 1 sudded changes are great friends to colds, and the man, woman or child who has not already succeeded in acquiring J* well developed cold is so rare as to be an object of wonder. All Rome is sneezing and coughing and complaining, with many in bed and all the others anxious to be there. Nine people out of ten. if you ask them how they are, either say they have the grip, or reply : “I hab a berry bat colt ” The weather, if it follows forecast orders, will not improve their condition even if the people do sneeze at it. THE BAD BOY’S ANTICS Will Amuse a Crowd at Nevin's Opera House Tonight. There is something in the play of the *’B id B >y” which revives in the mind of every beholder memories of the keenest relish. His pranks upon his indulgent parent, upon the long-suffering and for a armg groceryman. and tbe exhaustless resources of his frivolous and irrepressi ble nature, kindle an appreciation on the part of the auditor which provokes the wildest merriment and elicits the most uproarous applause. As pieces of original composition the * - B id B >y” stories hive been ap proached in our language; and for ab surd stage situations, continuous and ex bilaratiug comedy, the play is inoompar- F WAS A MISTAKE- The Senate Committee’s Report on the k Nixon Bill. ■ “TekTribunf was mistaken in saying the senate committee reported 'adversely on the Nixon bill,” said a city official yesterday. ‘‘The committee reported in favor of excluding that portion of the property already agreed to by the council. That was all they asked at the time, and it was granted. “Tue trouble about excluding it all is the precedent as much as anything else. Everybody out that wav would be trying to get out, as they would be placed at a disadvantage when it came to a sale.” - ! A CHARMING AFFAIR Will Be the “At Home" of Ml.s Nanelle McWilliams. Invitations are out to an “At Home” ' of Miss Nanelle McWilliams next Thurs- ' day evening, and the young people are looking forward with great anticipation’ ' tothattime. 1 She is one of Rome’s most popular young ladies, and an evening at the pretty East Rome residence means a j happy time. RIVER TRAFFIC. I The Steamer Resaca Arrives With a Good Cargo. ] The steamer Resaca came in Sunday 1 night with a good cargo of cotton and country produce. ] She left yesterday for down the Coosa < to look 3. River traffic is heavy this sea- I son, and much business is being worked 1 up by Captain Kirkpatrick and his able assistant, Mr. Walter Langford. ( ‘ BOWK GA.. WkDNKSu,! mOKNINU. UECEMBEk 13, laf.3 A FARMER KILLED By a Freight Train Yesterday Morning. TOM MOON’S TRAGIC END. He Leaves a Wife and Seven Children Without a Crust : ' of Bread. J. > Moon, a farmer about 40 years of age, was killed yesterday by an E. T., V. & G. freight train. The accident occurred early in tbe morning near Silver Creek Station, right where the tracks of the C., R. & 0., and E. T., V. <fc G. railways run parallel. No one was with Moon when the accident occurred, but it seems that an Erst Ten nessee freight and a Contra! passenger train were near each other running in the same direction—racing, some saM. The Central passed first, aui about 100 or 200 yards from the di,rt road, Moon stood on the East Tennessee track watch ing the passenger train. The noise made by it partially drowned that of tbe freight. As it dashed around the curve tbe engineer blew his whistle, but all to no geod. lu a moment tbe man was struck and thrown twenty feet. He died tn a few minutes. An inquest was held in the afternoon and a verdict rendered that tbe death was due to una voidable accident. The deceased bad been jiving with bis family on the Woodruff place, about six miles from the city. _ He leaves a wife and seven small children. They are in destitute circamstances, and it is said ate their last cruse of bread yesterday morning. . . < IN MEMORIAM- A Friend Writes of Thomas J. Craton Deceased. Died, at age Os 43 yet® ' ' ' ’lif'xMJlwn* > Valley, Polk attaining his maj irity'moved-to the ad joining county, where he spent the re mainder of bis life. Mr. Craton was a man of great determination and energy. Work to him waa.honorable and no hiog was too hard that needed to be done. He was very successful tn his business, leav ing behind a fortune estimated at seventj flva to a hundred thousand dollars. With his means he was liberal, as ths needy poor around him will testify. Many a barefooted child was enabled to go to Sunday school by his kindness. All the children loved him. Mr. Craton was a devoted husband and father, aiming to increase tbe comfort and happiness of wife and children in all ways possible. He was twice married. His first wife was a Miss Howell, who bote him five cbi dren. His second wife was Miss Rosa Peek, who in youth still survives him He had realized for a long while that he would die, and frequently spqge of it. All his arrangements for the other world were made, and he confidently looAd forward to a better world when he should pass from this. Religion was his support as he looked forward to another state of being. His conversations on this subject were de lightful to his friends. His death resulted from a hurt received a year ago, caused by trying to throw a belt with a heavy scantling. A month ago, while in Rome, he was taken with nervous convulsions, caused by this trouble, and from this attack be never rallied. His death was calm and peace ful. He was buried in the cemetery at Pleasant Hope church, Floyd county, with Mssouic honors. His membership was with the church just named. His brethren, as indeed all the community, will greatly miss him. A Fkiend. CITY LOANS. What Is Meant by the BUI Recently Passed, The legislature a few days ago passed a bill allowing the mayor and City of Rome to negotiate certain loans. Capt. M. A. Nevin explained this to a Tribune reporter yesterday, as follows: “Sou see at times, we run out of money when a sufficient amount will soon come in from taxes. Yet the city is not aliowe't to negotiate even short loans, and bills due can not be paid, when really the city is in splendid finan cial condition. This bill gives authority to borrow small amounts for short time when necessary to pay bills falling due at odd times. It is simply a convenience, and the amount is limited by the bill.” MR. PRICE'S BEAVER. A Floyd Legislator Gets Recognition From the Speaker. This is from the Polygraph column in tbe Atlanta Journal : Mr. Neel, of Floyd, tells a good one on his colleague, Mr. Price, who is one of the most dignified members of the house. He has been wearing a beaver hat of late, and has come in a little after roll call on several occasions, and, addressing the speaker, has r* quested that his name be recorded as present. The other morning he came in wearing a black slouch hat on his head. A gen- tieman was speaking and in vain did M-'. Price try to get recognition to have his, name recorded. He finally relapsed into silence, but seemed to do some very hard thinking as he laid his modest littls slouch hat to one side. Tbe next morning he walked in with his beaver on his head, cocked to one side, and with kid gloves on his hands. Very carefully depositing them to one side he shouted, “Mr. Speaker,” a> d then, sotto voice; he added, “Igueas he’ll recognize me now.” ‘ ■‘•The gentleman from Floyd,” cried the speaker, arid with a look of triumph on his face as be laid one hand upon bis beaver and the other upon his gloves, bd bowed and said : “I desire to have my name recorded as present.” Mr. Price thinks lots of his and gloves. _ THEY CALL HIM MAJOR. . i • Chas. Fiiderwood’s Pythian Speech at East man Highly Complimented. The Southern Knight published at East man, devotes something like a page to the address of Mr. O. W. Underwood at that place on the subject of Pythianism, and then throws in a column or two ol compliments, including resolutions oi thanks to the eloquent young Knight. After all this the p»par is sorry it hasn’t more space, and winds up as fol lows: “We are sorry that space forbids a more extended account of this speeon, but when we say that parts of Msj. Un derwood’s discourse were simply sub lime,and his peroration the finest we have ever listened to, we but echo the sen timent of every one presen’. We predict that high honors await this rising young Georgian in his profession —law —as web as in a Pythian sense.” Mr. Underwood is an eloquent speaker, and his friends expected nothing less oi him than the above shows. CITY COURT > ■ Is Grinding Slowly Away—The Work of • Yesterday. is grinding slowly but In ilia t >n Oil Co., the 1 diet of $l2O for the plaintiff. • Harper for Wilder, Dean & Smith for d? ! .f«se. ‘ ’ Charlie C. Harper asked for damages from tbe Postal Telegraph Co., uro to deliver a message and was all<H||| $56 60 by the jary. Wright & for plaintiff, Fouche & Fouche sense. The case of Wyatt vs Holmes on KK tract was taken up but not George Harris for plaintiff, floskiiis<KM| Harris for defense. - JIM DAVIS DYING- M ■ He Was a Policeman in Rome— NowHl Oklahoma. Jim Divis, a Roni 3 is dying in Perry, Oklahoma. IM A telegram was received to that effefl ' yesterday by Mr. McLummy, his in-law. jaM Mr. Davis the Perry. His illness is due toexpbgKS r.ud the fact that the improvised ings in Party do not furnish sufficMM protec’ion from tbe wintry weather. contracted a s tvere cold that progreiKS into pneumonia, and now bis life is K!| paired. Mrs. Davis went out to oKH hotna only a couple cf weeks ago. IB Mr. Davis has many friends in who will deeply regret to learn precarious condition. SHfl 808 REEVE’S BONO. The Senate Relieves the Bondsman Goes Free. R. L. Reeves, of Athens, against uHi|| a case has been pending here years, and who failed to meet year for the first time, is a free maißS|| cording to his construction of the of the senate yesterday. |H>S The case had been off, but when he failed to show time his bondsman, Joseph of Atlanta, was held for SI,OOO. I||i| houses have agreed that tbis shouiKM -bo paid, and Reeves considers easels Solicitor NuunallKM| have to gi e an opinion on the subjKSi Reeves and his friends claim is nothing in the case. " Tne Father of the Congress. The very oldest man in the congress, the “father oi congress” in years, m original entry, and in length of contin ued service, is the Hon. Justice S. Mor rill, who came to *the house in 1855, served there until 1867, when he was pio moted to the senate, and has there re mained ever since. He has tbe dis tinction of being both the father of tbe congress and th father of the senate. Mr. Morrill is in his eighty-fourth year, and if he shall live to serve out his present term he will hava been in congress forty two years, thirty of which will haw been spent in the senate.—Washington Post. GORDON HILES Elected Edl tor-in-Chlet of the t’niveraity of Georgia Weekly. Gordon Hiles, of Rome, has been elected editor-in-chief of the weekly paper published by the University of Georgia. This is bis first year at Athens, and the honor is a nigh one. It is seldom given to any except old students. UPROOTING STUMPS The Solidest Yield to the Power of the Lever. THE ARTISTIC SENSE And When Pulled They are Made Into a Fence Rugged and Strong. “Yon may talk about yer hedges, en yer wire fences, en yer stun walls, en yer rails all yon’ve a min to, but I tell ye they ain’t none on ’em a comparin to stump fences fer lastin, en fer keepin stock in, en keepin it out, en fer good looks. I hev heerd some folks say stump fences wuzn’t hansom, but I dis agree with them folks. I think stnmp fences is pleasant things to l<x>k at. “They wuz a feller up here in old Tioge county last summer en . fall that paints pictures fer a Hvin, en he made <: lot of sketches of the stump fences on my farm. He said he lied made a dis- \a\ THE BIG BRACE ALL READY. covery when he run acrost stump fences, en he’s a-goin to make a ile paintin of a corner in the fence in my 10 acre lot, where the rozberry bushes is thick, with liis wife a-pickin berries into it. “He’s a-goin to make another one, he says, of the king stump of the fence that’s got roots thajLrnn IS feet up into >5 f enlar 17 ' moth ? cable Th * f PULLING FOR DEAR LIFE. tion is supported by specially built trucks, is hauled over the stump to be pulled, let down to the ground, and the trucks are removed. Men h»v» *irea<tv uog aooai tne roots ana inserted strong chains under them. These chains are carried up to the eye which depends from the lower end of the screw by a collar, and hooked. The great chain or cable has already been wound on the drum of the revolving nut, which is termed the “bnllwheel.” When all is ready, the chain is unwound, the bull wheel revolves, the screw rises, and the stump comes out—unless something breaks. , The unwinding of the chain may be ac complished by attaching to its free end line or more strong teams, which are driven away from the machine with much straining of muscle on their part and shouting and whip cracking on the part of the driver, or a winding drum may be used. This machine is anchored at some distance from the frame and is operated by a lever, to which a team is attached aiid driven in a circle. The chain is wound upon .this drum as it revolves. When the chain breaks, as it some times does, some one is apt to be hurt. That some one is generally the man who tends the bnllwheel. The strain on the chain is really enormous, and its frac ture is followed by rapid revolutions of the bullwheel in a reverse direction, the broken end of the chain flying about with each turn of the wheel. To be struck by this loose end means a broken leg or arm almost certainly, and some times the bullwheel tender is killed out right or so badly hurt that death ulti mately ensues. The lever is much more generally used than the bnllwheel machine. Its essen tial parts are a long, strong lever formed of a moderate sized tree trunk, divers rods and chains and “A” shaped tim ber constructions, technically known as “braces.” These braces are of three sizes. A “big brace” is 18 feet high, a “middle brace” 14 and a “little brace” 8. The stump to be pulled is treated in ad vance exactly as the one to be extracted by a bullwheel. A brace is set over it, the chains and rods are connected, a team is attached to the free end of the lever and started up, and the stump comes out —that is, as before, if nothing breaks. The sweeping end of the lever is sup ported by a heavy wheel, which moves in the arc of a circle. Near the end the lever is chained to a stump, which acts as a fulcrum, and is for the the “anchor,” and the “take with the “tdhee eyes, shown in th< fulerum and .'V'I" ir -''”a.-> " e-’.v.i'd ■£'’■ ?-. ; 5 ’ \ ii ]<is afflHL', >,-'» '. '- <- ''r times it big one. The the risk of ly hard one now of this sort take off IHH|||| business with great rapill|9| of jobs on clay soil may erator whose capital is I. D. MM Tex?s corporations must chise tax or forfeit their chartei PRICE MVE CENTS. ITALIAN PATRIOTS. The Active Political Career of Premier Zanardelll. ALWAYS ACTIVE IN DEBATE A Leading Lawyer and States man and a Member of the Chamber of Deputies. vriuseppe Zanardelli, the new Italian premier, is one of the leading lawyers a and statesmen of Italy and has taken an active part in politics there for 40 years. He was born in Bresica 64 years ago, fought for Italian independ ence and unity, winning military distinction before he had reached man’s estate. He . revolutionized hie premier zanardelli. native Bresica and wasZm acti vdwcrker for Cavonr aj|£L Victor Emmanuel and Piedmont. ■■rtn;-' gate to Naples. Sicily Since 1862 Zanard<4li has heenWMHH ber of the chamber of deputies Wkß ways active in debate. In 1876 minister of public works under DepreßH and afterward minister of the interims under Cairoli. He accepted the try of justice when Depretis came in again, and retained it under Crispi, but retired when Crispi fell and refused a portfolio offered him by Giolitti, whose recent expulsion from power in disgrace made a vacancy for him as premier. Zanardelli has been the author and ad vocate of more measures of a progressive sort than any other member of the Ital ian parliament. Through his efforts the ballot was placed in the hands of 2,000,- 000 additional voters, and he compiled and secured the passage of the penal and commercial codes—two works of recog ' nized merit and authority for which he , has received decorations from the rulers •of other nations than his own. He has several times refused the premiership, and last year was unanimously elected president of the chamber of deputies. In person thin and of distinguished appeaj^^^HThough im petuous and gentle and worker, fortunrj