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*THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, - - Editor.
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ROME GEORGIA. JUNE 18, 1895.
Tall aches from little toe corns grow.
What’s the matter with the electric
lights?
Today Hy Lansdell’s excursion goes
to Lookout. It will be a pleasant
trip.
The Macon Telegraph will get out
a special carnival edition of that well
edited paper.
Some young lady will stand a good
chance of succeeding Librarian Hal
stead Smith, Jr.
A teaspoonful of work is worth a
hogshead of talk. This applies equally
to all business.
Editor Thomas E. Watson, of the
People’s Party paper, has our sympa
thies in the recent death of his hon
ored father.
It will take a man with big brains
to fill Senator Gordon’s shoes. The
size of the feet doesn’t matter. —Sa-
vannah Press.
At the election Thursday there will
be an effort to put some women on
the board of directors, a move in the
right direction.
Editor Mclntosh says: “The worst
enemy a barroom has is the woman
who knows how to make home invit
ing to the menfolks of the family.”
Albertville, Ala. must be flourishing
from the looks of the spritely Marshal
County News, which, under the di
rection of Editor W. T. McCord is one
of the brighest and best.
Talk is a very cheap commodity,
does very well and is effective in
its place, but genuine work and stick
ativeness are the great agencies which
accomplish great results.
The finger prints of an editorial
writer of more than ordinary ability
are on the editorial page of the Bir
mingham Age-Herald. It is now one
of the best edited papers in Alabama
The Constitution is giving Rome a
fair showing in its news columr s
which is highly appreciated by the
people of the Hill City, but that is
in keeping with the enterprise of that
great paper.
Appendicitis, the terrible affliction
under which Georgia’s governor is
suffering, is a dreadful disease. With
out an operation it is certain death
and with an operation the chances
are extremely doubtful for his recov
ery.
The south is steadily moving in
point of manufacturing enterprises as
well as in other works of improvement
and development. Within the past
few months several millions of dollars
have been invested in cotton mills in
this section. The south is determin
ed to lead the world.
In announcing the suspension of its
weekly edition last month, the New
York Herald says: “Subscribers to
the Weekly Herald will receive the
Sunday Herald until the expiration
of their subscription. It has long
been patent to everybody that tl e
legitimate field of weekly news review
is filled to the satisfaction of local
readers by county and town papers
that now stud the various states like
t ars in the sky.” ,
PUBLIC SYMPATHY.
The sympathy of the people goes
out to Gov. W. Y. Atkinson, and his
afflicted family in his dangerous ill
ness.
During hisshort term as governor of
the state he has shown himself as an
active and zealous servant of the peo
ple in the discharge of his duties as
chief magistrate.
In common with the people of Geor
gia, we extend to the govenor and his
family our heartfelt sympathies and
trust that his restoration to complete
recovery will be a matter of a few
days.
Since his inauguration the Govenor
has had to suffer from various misfor
tunes and this, the climax of his trou
ble, is enough to crush any man, but
thanks to his strength of will he has
so far borne up under every calamity
with a fortitude that is as rare as they
are commendable. He is a young
man yet, with a future full of prom
ise and his loss would be one of the
most deplorable occurrences that
could happen.
THE MEMPHIS MEETING.
The New York World takes the same
position that we have held in regard
to the financial question all the time.
Here is an editorial from that paper
that covers the grounds:
“The Memphis Free-Silver Conven
tion is not an unnatural consequence
of the Memphis Sound-Money Con
vention.
“Both of them have been in the na
ture of political mistakes. Their ten
dency is to raise a false and unneces
sary issue at an unfortunate time. It
will be a full year before nominations
can be made for any election in which
the money can be brought into prac
tical issue. That year of grace might
have been devoted very profitably to
the country to the calm consideration
of the monetary question by both
parties, with the result perhaps of
bringing all reasonable men in each
party together and controlling both
parties toward courses that tend to
stability in finance and prosperity in
business.
“These two conventions have done
as much as lay in their power to pre
vent this. The one has sought to com
mit the democracy of the country to
gold monometallism and the other to
silver monometallism. They have
done all they could to put out of sight
and to discourage hopeful efforts to
secure sound money by international
agreement at a time when such efforts
give the best possible promise of suc
cess.
“Together they have managed to
do all the harm that political indiscre
tion could do at so critical a time,
whether we measure harm by the
hurt done to the party of the people
or by the probable consequence of
such courses to the country.
“The money question will in no way
come before the people for settlement
until 1896. It is political folly of the
worst kind to force it upon attention
in 1895, and that too in an unnatural
form in which it might not have pre
sented itself next year.
“The restraint of politicians from
aggressive unwisdom, if it could be in
any wise accomplished, would be “the
making” of this Republic.”
HARD EARNED WAGES.
Here is a rare old bit that is one of
the legacies of journalism. Every
now and t,Mn, during the summer
season, or on some off day, it pops up
and is started on its rounds. It comes
this time in the editorial columns of
the Obpy Hook and its absurdity and
ridiculousness are hard to beat. It
runs as follows:
“An old church in Belgium decided
to repair its properties, and employed
an artist to touchjup a large painting.
Upon presenting his bill the
committee in charge refused payment
unless the details were specified,
whereupon he presented the items as
follows:
To correcting the Ten Commuidments, ....8512
Embellishing Pontius Pilate and patting new
ribbons on bis bonnet 3 02
Putting new tail on the rooster of St. Peter and
mending his comb 2 20
Repluming and gilding left wing of Guardian
Angel 518
Wat hlng the High Priest and putting carmine
on bls cheek 502
Renewing Heaven, adjusting the stars and
cleaning up the moon 7 14
Touching up purgatory and restoring lost
souls 306
Brightening up the flames of hell, putting new
tail on the Devil, mending his left hoof a d
doing several odd jobs for the damned...? 14
Rebordering the robes of Herod, and adjusting
Ms wig 4 00
Taking the spots off the sun of Tobias 130
Cletnlng Balamm's Ass, and putting one shoe
on him 1 70
Putting earrings in Sarah’s ear 171
Putting a new stone in David’s sling, enlarging
the head of Goliah, and extending Saul's legs 6 13
Decorating Nosh’s Ark and putting a new head
on Shem 331
Mending the shirt of the prodigal son and
cleaning bis ear 239
858 42
The bil was paid.
THE ROME TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, JuWe 18. 1895
MOUNTAIN RAMBLES.
The Heated Season.
From Yonah’s lofty mountain,
From Brunswick’s breezy strand
Where Indian spring’s fair fountain
Rolle down its shining sand;
From many a winding river,
From many a sweltering plain
“From us the heat deliver”
Swells high the wild refrain.
What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o’er Cumberland ide,
Where every object pleases
And only man bears bile;
Shall we with toleration
Permit the pesky bore
With deep premeditation,
March out and shut the door.
Shall we whose souls are weighted
With this unearthly heat,
To some sad soul belated
That Inquiry repeat,
Which fires the wrath he nurses
Whose soul is in a stew
And brings forth fiery curses,
•‘is it hot enough for you?”
Waft, waft, ye winds the story.
Ye frisky cold » aves roll
And bring us in our glery
Still closer to the pole;
While each hie favorite brew sips
In catacombs of ice.
And he who mixes julips
Don’t have to ask us twice.
Montgomery M. Folsom.
A Shadowed Life.
Traveling through the Tennessee
mountains, over the picturesque Great
Southern railroad, I ran upon one of the
sandest little episodes from real life that
I have ever heard.
I alighted from the train at a little
way side station and was attracted by
the strange conduct of a young man
who was running alongside the train,
peering eagerly through the windows as
if expecting some one on the train.
After a few minutes pause the bell
rang and the train moved off slowly,
when the youth began jumping up and
down excitedly crying, “Oh, mother,
mother! Don’t take her away! Come
back mother!”
The train disappeared around the
shoulder of the mountain, and with a
sad and weary look in his restless eyes,
he took a seat on the edge of the plat
form and lapsed into a listless silence,
remaining thus until a big, bearded far
mer came up, took him by the arm and
gently led him away toward a low
eaved cottage in the valley.
The affair naturally excited my curi
osity, and I asked the station agent the
the meaning of the strange conduct of
the youth, who, though well grown
and quite a man in stature, had the
face of a boy of ten years; and then the|
agent told me the pathetic story.
i -i ■ 'L
Fifteen years ago there was no hap
pier family than that of the farmer, his
wife and their only child, a ten year
old boy. The wife had be.en delicately
reared and was of an exceedingly nerv
ous and impressionable temperament,
coupled with a fragile physique, totally
unfitted for the life of drudgery inci
dent to the life of a farmer’s wife in
that lonely land.
He had made her acquaintance while
she was visiting one of the many sum
mer resorts scattered through that por
tion of the south. She was winsome
Nellie Blair, the child of affluence, ten
derly nurtured and with all the embell
ishments that education, training and
the highest social environments could
give her.
He was a well-to-do young farmer,
add supplied the hotel with vegetables,
fruit and poultry during the summer
season, and though Tom Kennedy was
rough and lacking in the graces of cul
ture and refinement, he was a magnifi
cent specimen of physical manhood,
brave as a lion, with an honest eye and
such a winning personality as is not
frequent among the mountaineers of
that region.
During one of his visits to the hotel,
he accidentally made the acquaintance
of Miss Blair, and she in her romantic
way, fell in love with the bronzed and
bearded young mountaineer at first
sight. As for him, he was completely
captivated by the impulsive young crea
ture, so different from the virile and
comely women to whom he was accus
tomed.
Friends of the girl soon saw whither
matters were drifting and used every
means in their power to ward off the
threatening climax, but in vain.
One morning she was missing at the
breakfast table and a few lines hastily
scrawled, left in her room, told the sto
ry. She had eloped with her farmer
lover, and when those who started in
hot pursuit met the runaways, near the
little church, the farmer blandly inform
ed them that their’qeust was useless as
she was now his wife and nothing but
death their lives should sever.
Her father, of course, after the man
ner of fathers, was furious and disown
ed and disinherited his daughter, leav
ing her to her fate.
But her warm-hearted and generous
nature arose equal to the emergency,
and there was no more devoted wife in
the valley than blessed the humble cot
tage of Tom Kennedy, who was perfect
ly devoted to her, and if possible, more
so than ever, after their baby boy came
to brighten their little home.
Matters moved smoothly enough for
three years, the summer boarders, like
the summer birds, flitted back and forth
without disturbing the serenity of the
little household and Kennedy prospered
in a modest way.—
Then came the tragedy of their lives.
Kennedy became unwillingly involved
in one of those deadly feuds that are the
bane of existence, in those out of the
world communities, M. M. F.
[CONTINUED TOMORROW]
BIG POSTAL ROBBERY.
A Mail Poach Rlfl.-d and the Money Af
terwards Returned—An Arrest Followed.
Montgomery. Ala., June 17.—A big
postoffice robbsry has just come to
light here. Jouah Morris & Co., bank
ers, sent on Saturday a package con
taining $ 10,00(; to a New York bank,
insuring as usial. A postal agent came
and receipted to the Montgomery post
office forth? money. Shortly after
wards the mailpouch was found cut
open. Postmaster Screws telegraphed
Inspector Barrett at Chattanooga to
come immediately and investigate the
matter.
Charles Armstrong, a postoffice em
ploye, returned the package Sunday,
claiming h« had found it on the streets.
Armstrong was arrested under a war
rant sworn out by Inspector Barrett
and prompt’*' gave bond for his appear
ance before Un ted States Commission
er Scales. 'in. robbery has created a
sensation. Armstrong belongs to a
nromineut familv.
HealthjMl Gone
Unequal to Family Duties—No
Appetite
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Gave Strength
and Courage to Work.
“I was in such condition I could not walk
even about the house to attend to house-
Ehold duties and
care for my chil
dren and family. I
did not have the
strengthof a child.
I was treated by
several physicians,
who pronounced
my trouble Scrof
ula and Female
Weakness. I could
eat only a slice of
bread and drink a
cup of tea, three
times a day. Some-
Mn. John Hase times I could stand
Oran, N. y. a soft boiled egg
for dinner. I became reduced to skin and
bones; at last they had to draw me
about the house seated in a rocking chair.
I was in a terrible state when my husband,
having noticed advertisements of Hood’s
Hood’s Baraa -
a. purtlla
Sarsaparilla, urged X ▼
upon me to give it Bl
trial. After taking
one bottle I received sufficient benefit to
know that I had at last found the right
medicine. I have now taken several bot
tles and am able to
Attend Nly Housework.
In fact, I am on my feet about all day, and
can go up stairs easily. I cannot say
enough in praise of Hood’s Sarsaparilla.’’
Mbs. John Hash, Box 92, Oran, N. Y.
Hnnri’c Di 11c are tasteless, mild, effec
ilOOU S rlllS Uye . AH druggists. 25c.
IM
BIG SALE DAY
at Holmes & Co.’s Cash Grocery
Store, for the benefit of their many
customers. The following are a
few of their prices for regular cus
mers only.
20 lbs Granulated Sugar, $1 00
5| lbs Good Green Coffee, 1 00
11 lbs Best Lard, 1 00
13 lbs Lard, 1 00
50 lbs Best Patent Flour, 1 20
18 lbs Best Head Rice, 1 00
21 lbs Cracked Rice, 1 00
12 lbs Pearl Grits, 30
1 bushel Water Ground Meal, 60
Best Hams, per pound, ll|c
Vermicelli, per pound, 08
Maccaroui, per pound, 08
Prunes, per pound, 08
Evaporated Apples, per pound, 10
Dried Peaches, per pound, 10
Soda Crackers, per pound, 07
Saltina Crackers, per pound, 12
6 Boxes Sardines, 25
4 Boxes Potted Ham, 25
15 Bars Soap, small, 25
Oat Meal, per pound, 04
Oat Flakes, per package, 10
3 lb cans Peaches, 13
12 Large Boxes of Matches, 20
2lb P’k’g of Buckwheat Flour, 10
1 lb Can Corned Beef, 10
4 oz Box Snuff, 10
Westover Tobacco, per pound, 30
3 Bottles Heinz’s Pickles, 25
2 lb p’k’g Stick Candy, 15
1 gallon Good Vinegar, 25
1 gallon Good Syrup, 20
6 Cans Eagle Brand Condensed
Milk, 1 00
25c Box Van Houten’s Cocoa, 20
50c Box Van Houten’s Cocoa, 40
3 Cakes Sweet Chocolate, 25
Respectfully,
HOLMES <fc CO.
FOR THIS WEEK
WE WILL OFFER %
SPECIAL
INDUCEMENTS
.... 1N... .
DINNER SETTS.
We Have
Dinner Setts ranging in Drice
from $8.50 to $75.00. Our goods
are new and fresh, bought for the
summer trade.
See Our
New Salad Setts, Berry Setts, Ice
Cream Plates. We have the latest
thing out in Ice Cream Plates—not
saucers.
We Are
•
Still selling the best Refrigeraror
ever sold in Rome. The only clean
able Refrigerator on the market.
We invite you to investigate our
Refrigerators before you buy.
Fly fans
Fly Traps, Water Coolers, Fruit
Jars, Jar Rubbers, Sealing Wax, <fcc.
EVERYTHING FOR THE
I KITCHEN
AND DINING ROOM.
ICE CREAM FREEZERS
OF ALL THE BEST MAKES.
NEW LINE OF
TIN WATER SETTS!
The prettiest assortment of ten
d twelve piec Water Setts ever
shown in Rome.
You Are
Cordially invited to visit our
store. We will take pleasure in
showing you through and have ex
perienced salesmen in the china and
crockery business to serve you.
I
I HSTEELE
241 and 243 Broad Street,
aLRCHSZEZE], GLA..
N.«. DASS,
No. 225 Broad Street,
Rome, Ga
Real Estate,
Slocks
and Bonds
This column free
of charge to my pa
trons.
City and Suburban Prop
erty for Sale.
$3,000 —Splendid improved city
property in first class location. Will
take ten shares Merchants Bank
stock at par in part payment.
$6,500 —This sum will buy a
brick store, brick residence and
two-story frame residence, close in,
on electric car line. Two shares
Merchants Bank stock in part pay
ment.
$350 —Pretty vacant lot on But
ler street, in Fifth ward.
S7O0 —Cozy new four room cot
tage, water pipes and good lot, on
Pennington avenue.
$1,600 —Modern five room cot
tage, front and back porch and hall,,
also two-room servant house. Lot
50x150, in East Rome, on Howa>d
street.
$1,250 —Five-room house and lot
in East Rome, corner Maple and
Oak streets; on building and loan
payments.
$4,000 —New two story Broad
street brick store, down town.
$1,500 —The very prettiest vacant
lot, 60x400 feet, large shade trees,.
clo>e in, moderate elevation.
SBO0 —Five-room cottage on Main
street.
$3,750 —One of the largest, best
located lots, on high grade, Second
avenue. Real nice seven room resi
dence. shade, etc.
SB75 —Choice, large, vacant East
Rome lot, on hill overlooking the
entire city. Very cheap and easy
terms.
S9O0 —Two four-room houses,
paying a rental equal to fifteen uer
cent, on price.
FARMS FOR SALE
No 1.—5,000 acres land, on two
railroads, creek running through
entire property, seven water powers,
one mill and gin, ten springs and
branches, fifty residences and tenant
houses, fourteen barns, fourteen
stables. About 1,800 acres in cul
tivation, balance in fine timber.
Here is a place for a live colony at
ten dollars per acre.
No. 2.—265 acres good residence,
valley land, close to Cave Spring.
Price, $3,300.
No. 3.—440 acres valley land,
good improvements, runnifig water,
railroad, good schools, churches and
society. 84,400.
No. 4 —Bo acres valley land, im
proved, SI,OOO.
No. 5—580 acres valley and
mountain land, fair improvements,
spring and branches, $3,250.
No. 6—420 acres splendid valley
land, two-story brick residence, on
large creek, near Cave Spring. This
is a first class farm for stock or any
thing else. A real lovely, attractive
home, $6,500.
160 acres in Chattooga county,
lai d very fine, large, ample improve
ments of every kind, store home
and postoffice; all on a large creek,
good water power, with a fine grist
mill for wheat and corn; good all
year custom. $12,000.
I have a large number of other
farms and city property in every
direction. Trade is improving,
crops growing, birds singing, silver
humming, “c-old bugs” bumming,
no snakes, lizards, or “muskeeters’ r
to annoy the sweet repose and pros
perity of those who invest with me.
N. Hz BASS,
Home, Ga..