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DYER&DANIELS -—SUCCESSORS TO LaJlliam Sons, We make our best bow to the crockery buyers of Rome and vicinity aud request you to write or call on us for prices in our line before purchasing elsewhere. We nave purchased the stock of Lanham <fc Sons at such prices as enables us to offer big bargains in the line of CROCKERY Glassware, Tinware, Stoves, Etc. / We must have room. Have more goods than space to keep them, with new goods coming in. We carry the choicest and newest prcductions of the leading factories of the world. Our stock of high grade and medium class goods is the largest and best selected in North Georgia. We mean business when we say that we will sell you goods cheaper than any other house, and a cordial invita tion is extended to every one to call on us and look through our extensive stock. OUR WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT will be kept up to a high standard. DYER 4 DANIELS, 236 Eioati Street. MAKING A NEW TOWN GROWTH OF SHAWNEE, A LUSTY IN FANT OF THREE MONTHS. Fonnded When the Shawnee Country In the Indian Territory Was Thrown Open to Settlement—The First Settlers Were Hustlers—Some Queer Characters. Down at tbe apex of the Kickapoocoun try, In the Indian Territory, is the town of Shawnee, which has lately taken unto it self the ambitious appellation of “city.” It was founded when the Shawnee country was opened, from which it took its name. Lately it has assumed a very ambitious air and proposes to be the metropolis of the Kickapoo country when the latter has be come covered with thrifty farms. It and Choctaw will be the railroad points for that country. The Shawnee /of today is three months old and is the “old town” moved north two streets. It was at first situated on parts of two claims and consisted of a long wide street with a well in the center, and one end of the street hated and despised the other end. Along the street were scat tered at intervals unpainted wooden build ings, and all around were the stumps of trees. The largest building in the town was the “millinery store”—in a town where the women wore sunbon nets in sum ■ mer and knitted hoods in winter! The next largest building was the hotel —a hideous structure unfinished everywhere. Up stairs the windows were without glass, and in its place thin cheesecloth was tacked in the sashes, giving the rooms a dim re ligious light. All the rooms were unlathed, and the rafters in all their naked and splin tery ugliness glared at the unfortunate guests. The hotel was kept by a man from Ken tucky 6 feet 5 inches tall, his wife 6 feet tall, three grown daughters as tall as their mother, a girl 15 years old who was taller than her mother and weighed over 300 pounds and was nevertheless graceful, and a boy who was so young and big and fat that he had been offered a handsome salary to exhibit himself. The girls were all exceedingly handsome in face and fig ure, as was their mother also. One evening, two years ago, two weary travelers drove up to the hotel from a long drive across the Kickapoo country. They were hungry and grimy and had mental visions of a good supper and plenty of soap and water. When they asked for supper, the host got down a long shotgun from the rafters and walked silently out of the house. A half hour later he returned with some squirrels and a rabbit, and half an hour after that supper was served. To be sure, there was no milk for the tea and no butter for the soda biscuits, but the girls grouped themselves picturesquely around the table to wait on the travelers, and the younger man neglected his supper, to the profit of his more practical and older com panion, who ate the young man's squirrel. There wore a grocery store, a saloon and two bakeries, whereby hangs a tale. That was old Shawnee, thriftless as a backwoods town in Georgia, hopeless except for the then very uncertain coming of the “Choc taw road” and the opening of the Kicka poo country. The town was full of “wait ers," who starved along contentedly, pay ing no rent and living off the scanty finan cial droppings of chance travelers. But nil this has changed. Ono day the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad de cided to make Shawnee anointon its line. tnereny leaving Tecumseh, which used to laugh at and pity Shawnee, out in the cold. The road secured 800 acres of land near the old town, and the old town was doomed. A new era had set in. Shawnee had turned over a new leaf. All who would consent to move over were given lots, and in a week old Shawnee was no more, and new Shawnee began to boom. The railway surveyors came through, and then the graders, and passing by the town now is a huge embankment of the red earth of the country. This was Shawnee’s Infancy. It is now three months old and a fine child for its age. Shawnee is a typical new town, such as are born of booms and unusual happen ings. Wide streets have been cleared by axes and scrapers. All over their surface crop up the roots of trees, which trip horses and pedestrians. Down the street on both sides are brand new buildings, many un painted and some, more ambitious, cover ed with a priming coat of paint, plenty for the prevailing weather. On every hand is the sound of hammers and saws; every one is putting up a building in town and sleeping in a tent or a covered wagon on the outskirts. There are four hotels and another with a mansard roof going up. A dozen saloons seem necessary to the town, some of them very ambitious and one of them very humorous. ZTho humor ous one has a sign in all the primary colors depicting the antics of two clowns In the letters spelling the word “saloon." The most ambitious house in town is a saloon with polished hard wood fixtures and mir rors and red curtains on the up stairs win dows. There are two banks, two newspapers, one variety theater, 25 business houses and two bakeries. Two years ago, when the town numbered less than 800 people, there were two bakeries. One of them was in a tent and was conducted by a widow, the other in a little wooden shack. They are now in new Shawnee, housed in good wooden buildings. The widow’s bakery is in a neat cottage with an annex. These bakeries have hated one another for two years without abatement. Two years ago they out prices on one another, and each claimed to make the best and biggest loaf for a nickel. Even then they got out hand bills sneering at one another’s bread and tacked them to the trees. Today they are getting out frequent handbills calling at tention to the size of their loaves and oth erwise insulting their “loathsome contem porary." The people of Shawnee are a bustling, hustling lot. They hustle about all day, whether they have anything to do or not, just to keep in touch with the times. Ask one of them, and he will tell you that Shawnee is going to be the greatest town In the country; that the railroad is going to make it its division headquarters, with a roundhouse, a machine shop and a mas ter mechanic, and incidentally a branch running off south into Texas. In a year or two the town will settle down, provided if in that time the rain falls and lays the dust for a few hours. It is the dustiest town anywhere just now, and when you eat in a restaurant pie that looks like blackberry proves to be custard after you get down through the dust. But it’s a good town and will be a better.—Kansas City Star. An Old School. It is certainly an unusual thing for a school in this country to be able to cele brate such an anniversary as the Koxbury Latin school celebrated on Wednesday. June 19 Two hundred and fifty years is •■•deed a goodly age for a school -Bostoi Transcript. THE ROME TRIBUNE, FRISDAY, JUNE 21, 1895 ELECTRIC WINNIPEG. The Atmosphere Full of the Fluid —Some of It* Curious Keeulte. A very-odd thing and one that not on ly astonishes but startles the stranger is the peculiar electrical condition of everything in Winnipeg during the win ter. If you reach out to touch an elec tric bell, before your finger is within three inches of the enunciator there is a flash of lightning that goes up through your arm and will probably make you jump six feet. If you touch any metallic substance, there is a flash of lightning. When yon get into bed the clothing crackles, and one would think that the landlord had provided you with .a blank et adorned with fireflies. After aw-hile one gets so nervous one is afraid to touch anything. I have stumbled around my room and bruised my shins rather than take chances light ing the gas or turning on the electric current If you reach for the gas jet, “crack” it goes. If you shuffle your feet along the carpet, you can light the gas with your finger. It is really one of the most startling phenomena in the whole northwest. Imagine turning over in one's bed and having the quilts emit sparks or reaching for a bell and being immediately answered by a flash that is apt to make one howl. I saw my travel ing companion, who had grown some what careful, wrap his finger up in a piece of paper to touch the bell. He jumped back with a shriek, and the whole paper seemed on fire. The people of the effete east who want to become electrified and have their systems filled with electricity should go up north. They will get it in proper shape and will learn to avoid radiators and every other metallic substance. The fact remains, however, that in that climate one feels wonderfully hope ful and able to work, and no task seems too hard to be undertaken, and I am firmly convinced that the great men of Canada will be developed there. It is a remarkable fact that Ontario, the most blessed of all the sections of Canada, has developed proportionately to its population fewer brainy and energetic politicians and business men than the provinces by the sea or the great west ern stretch of laud with the wonderful electricity in the air and the greatest difficulties of money making in the cli mate.—Saturday Night. BACK FROM THE DEAD. Husband and Wife Reunited After Being Apart For Thirty Years. A happy reunion of a husband and wife after an estrangement of 80 years has just been effected in Somerset coun ty, Pa. Emanuel Beck and Sarah Beck, nee Irwin, were married half a century ago. They settled on a farm in Wisconsin. When the war broke out, Emanuel Beck enlisted in the Thirty-third Wisconsin regiment and served until the close of the conflict, when he returned to his family. He moved to Dakota, but hard ly had the family settled when Beck was caught by the gold fever and start ed for the Black Hills. In a short time word came to his fam ily that Beck had been found in his cabin murdered by outlaws, who had carried away his gold, and Mrs. Beck and children returned to their former home near Johnstown. A few months ago she heard that her husband was living at Montrose, Colo., and the husband and wife are together once more. —New York Journal. A Clever Gang of Sharpers. A gang of sharpers, with headquarters in Cincinnati, is practicing one of the cleverest swindling schemes that have been devised for many a day through the states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and West Virginia. The scheme has as its foundation marked cards. A member of the gang first enters a town and sells a stock of marked cards at a price that is next to nothing under the pretext of “introducing the goods. ” The rest of the gang follows, and for days the unsuspecting innocents are bled and cheated. The strangers send out and buy the cards they can read so well, and there is no suspicion. It is said that at Indianapolis the gang cleared over |15,000 in a few weeks.—New York Herald. An Albino Trout. An albino trout was the name given to a peculiar white fish which the Rev. A. H. Gessner of the Methodist Episco pal church of Milford caught some time ago in the Beaver Dam creek near Port Jervis, N. Y. It was caught on a Thurs day, not on a Sunday. Such a fish had never before been seen in that section, so it was preserved in alcohol. Pure white, except for dark brown fins and tail, with indistinct spots of a delicate lavender color, the strange fish has been regarded as a freak. Willie Adams, a small boy fishing in Beaver Dam creek with a bent pin, a piece of string and a young sapling, caught another albino trout. It is a gamy fish. Little Willie’s specimen is to be submitted to some piscatorial ex pert.—New York World. 11E EflD E 1 could get relief OEi UliE from a most hor rible blood dis ease I had spent hundreds of dollars trying various remedies and physi cians, none of which did me any good. My finger nails came off ana my hair came out, leaving me perfectly bald. I then went to HOT SPRINGS Hoping to be cured by this celebrated treatment, but very soon became disgusted and decided to try S.S.S. The effect was truly wonderful. I commenced to recover at once, and after I had taken twelve bot tles I was entirely cured—cured by S.S.S. when the world renowned Hot IL Springs had failed, Wm.S. Loomis, L ■Aw-V Shreveport, La. • Our Book on the Disease an d its Treatment mailed free to any Address. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanta. Ga. Mrs. Anna 0 wife of Ex-Deputy o l Marshal. Co-T lumbus, Kan., says: (J “ I was delivered T K V of TWIXSI n less M f than 29 minutes and Y M ws with scarcely anyv Y / V pain after using Y A ( / onJ y two bottles of O | & F “MOTHERS’! $ ghsgifo FRIEND.” t X Sent by Express or W Y muil, on receipt of Y “To Mothers’* K I'W' F Mailed free. If BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, GA. O A Sold by all Druggists. A SSH gg O v ON THE PRICE SO CENTS PER BOTTLE.] f . ■ooi » vuslbu wnatTiia mil zT’T I I IM A( H .or salk .v oßuaai.T. ©kJ Jvl ln\l I Relief From the First Dose. Mrs. J. O. Jelke, of Hawkinsville. Ga,, writes: “I hove been a sufferer from Dyspei sia for years and years. Acidity of tbe stomach and a choking sensation in tLe throat, extreme nerv ousness and many other unpleasant symptoms attending it. Tyner’s Dyspepsia R< medy gave me relief from tbe first dose. I recomu end it to the public as a splendid medicine. ” The Gleason Sanitarium,! 1852 Elmira, N.Y. 1895 ® I! but the scenery—valleys—mountains— x spring brooks—the green—the sunlight— the shade—pure air—the food—the water— zjy can it help rest and refresh the tired—body [S —eyes —brain. Best medical skill—al 1 kinds of baths—mas- sage, Swedish g movements-el- XIHLr - * - (•) e vat or service g steam—electri- 'j) g city—gas —and - yJWi'gAwtfnraH •) g terms within •) g your reach. Il- g g lustrated book- g g let for the ask- g © <•) BUY KONE BUT THE GENUINE. 3,000 Merchants sell Hawkes’ Spectacles wit great success. 2,000 of them bandied other Spectacles withou success, shewing tbe great popularity HAWKES’ GI A-BEB over all others. His Optical Plant »nd Factory is one of the most comulete in the U. 8. Established Twenty-Three Years Ago. These Famous Glasses are fitted to the eye at D. W. CURRY’S, ROME, GA. 4 18-6 m DUKE Cigarettes XSg? ZLPTJggUET j ifeHDURHAM | r r Mis H (sIGAREjTEsi U /. D u ke Sons & Co. AMERICAN TOBACCO COSUH,* SUCCkg.OR y? ly RHAM, N.C. U.S.A. RAjJF MADE FROM High Grade Tobacco AND ABSOLUTELY PURE Di. I. Harvey Moore, L OCULIST. And Specialist tn AU Diseases of tbe EYE, EAR, THOAT ANU NOSE Such as Cataract, Pterygiums,Cross Eyes,Weak Painful or Inflamed Eves, Granulated Fye Lids, Neuralgia, Headache, Dizziness, Nausea, Nerv ous Dyspepsia. Chorea or St. Vitus’s Dance Deafness, Catarrh and Asthma. CROSS EYES STRAIGHTENED BY DR MOORE’S PAINLESS METHOD. No loss of time. No ether or chloroform. No confinement indoors. No pain during or alter the operation. GRANULATED EYE LIDB CURED WITH OUT CAUSTICS OR THE KNIFE. Hours fl to 1 o’clock, daily except Sunday 203 and 204 Kiser Building, Atlanta Corresp. ndence will receive prompt attention when accompanied by stamp. nov!4-3taw-ly MONEY TO LOAN On city property. Can fur nish money on short notice at small interest. If you want a loan call during next few days. ts Geo. F. Chidsey. Fruit jars and jar rubbers. W. H, Steele. SAMUEL FUNKHOUSER, Real Estate Dealer. STOCKS AND BONDS, 315 Broad. S"tr*eeti, - Rome G-a> JOHN M VANDIVER. Wholesale Liquors BEERS, WINES, CIGARS, TOBACCO, ETC. r I Agent for Joseph Schlitz and Budweiser Bottled Beer Pure Mountain Corn Whisky a specialty. Jug orders promptly filled. 24 and 26 BROAD Street; - Rome, Ga O’NEILL MANUFACTURING CO M ANUFACTURERBIOF SASH DOORS, BLINDS, Flooring, Ceiling, Weatherboarding, Brackets, Moulding, Mantels, Stairwork. Yellow Pine Lumber. GENERAL BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES. Office and Factory foot of First Avenue. Telephone No. 76. ROME, GA„ sunlflpg-eod hot ea page 2E-£- ID- HIT iT.j REAL ESTATE AGENT 230 EROAD ST. Renting a Specialty and Prompt Settlement the Rule John R. Clemmons SUCCESSOR TO J. S. WYATT, No, 505 X3HLO.ZX.X3 STREET Handles the finest liquors, brandies, cigars, etc. The very best whiskeys for medicinal purposes. , Eeei JLlways on ZDra-vigrlxt- We have Mr. Samuel Hawkins, one of the best mixers of drinks in the south. Jug orders promptly filled. may2B-lmo JOHN H. REYNOLDS, Preaident. B. I. HUGHES, Caahies P. H. HARDIN,.Vice ’’resident. First National Bank. ROME. G-A-- a a t. jßTJX<.x a ijXrei,: »aoo.ooo. ALL ACCOMMODATIONS CONSISTENT WITH SAFE BANKING EXTENDED TO OUR CUSTOMEBS. . ■ , -w THE ITO 4 DAY CUKF fdr GonorrtKM. . 1 " ' ' ■ •» {■■■■lVVWßiHjl Gleet. I«u<-orrhrea(White.). Sporm.-itorrham,and I iVRVIaN I lllnii »n unhealthy uexuul diMtliurge.. Iri e Syringe. NO PAIN. NO STAIN. PREVENTS STRICTURE. IMjrTTT 1 g i | CV PRfVfMTS kit PRIVATE CISEASES. |jJA*LHJJLL3IiM | fJi yd > l*l iliMßll . ■ At Druggists, or sent to any address, fur f I.UU. |H EKmSM Injection MidydoThaagiven«The sathfao BwfKviWI tlon ’ 1 IBBESBBSSSEj MALYDOR MFC. CQ., LanoaatM-, u.s.al— I