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THE ROME TRIBUNE
W. A. KNOWLES, - - Editor.
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NEW YORK. MANAGER.
The Chicago ratio is not 16 to 1 but
586 to 332.
Stepben Crane is now preparing
the red jag of beerage.
The relief fund raised in St. Louis
for the benefit of her tornado suffer
ers Las reached nearly $234,000.
Mr. Rockefeller's donations to the
Chicago University up to date aggre
gate seven and a half millions.
President Diaz has completed his
sixteenth year. Sixteen years to one
president is pretty good for Mexico.
They now refer to McKinley’s “full
dollar” as a hen on wheels. Such
irreverent expressions are enough to
make the American eagle shed his
t ul feathers.
Nine millionaires are helping to
assist the poor working man by hold
ing! down the republican national
platform. Coxey, where is thy sting,
oh, Debs where is thy victory?
'The country at large will welcome
New Jersey into the union of states,
one and indivisible, and may her mos
quitoes grow less as her cranberries
multiply and replenish the Thanks
giving sauce.
An Atlanta candidate for coroner
claims to be “not a democrat, not a
republican, not a populist, not a poli
tician, not a follower of Christ, and
willing to give SIOO for the building
of a church, if elected.”
The Pope has written a letter to
King Menelek, of Abyssinia, request
* ing him to release 2,600 Italian pris.
oners of war. This request will
probably be complied with. The Pope
returns good for evil.
A Buffalo paper has a correspon
dent who should be given the highest
linguistic honors. He reported that
at the St. Louis convention “the
spectators in the gallery presented a
howling waste of ch&os,”
The bicycle fad has reached im
mense proportions in and around
Rome. Our splendid boulevards,
radiating from a common center, are
conducive to encouraging the sport,
and maid and matron, business man
and sport, find these long summer
evenings perfectly delightful lor
wheeling along the bluff road. The
knickerbockers knicker on the green
grass and the bloomers are in bloom
and all the world seems to be awheel.
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
Today the old bonds of the city of
Rome will be finally cancelled and the
• new issue of $169,000, in SSOO and ,
! SI,OOO denominations will replace
1 those that have matured. The present
city council has fulfilled its duties in
: this direction and all possibility of
default removed thereby.
These new bonds are to run thirty
years, bearing 41 per cent interest and
2 redeemable in gold at the end of that
) time. The ease and facility with
, which the negotiation and sale have
r been effected speak in unmeasured
terms of the high standing of Rome
financially, and of the soundness and
J stability of our credit. t
This fact has called for very com
-1 plimentary comments from the press
l of the country and has attracted the
) attention of financiers and capitalists
in all the great commercial centers.
No better advertisement could be
sent out than this, especially during
such financial straits and unsettled
i times.
Fifty thousand dollars and upwards
of the old bonds are held in Rome
and these will be paid off to the
holders today when the final settle
ments are made. We are glad to be
able to congratulate the efficient and •
able members of the city government
on their success.
The progress of a city is like the
business success of an individual or a
business firm, largely dependent on ,
the condition of its credit, and in this
Rome certainly excels, equalling the 1
most flourishing commercial cities of
the country. In spite of all the exi
gencies of the times we hold our own. ,
We trust that in a few months we
shall experience a more settled condi
tion of affairs and that business will
assume its normal condition. With a
little more money in circulation with
which to conduct our business, no
city in the union would be on a more
prosperous basis than Rome.
ON TO RICHMOND. <
]
“On to Richmond!” What a tragic .
picture the war phrase calls up to ;
those who passed through the stirring
days from ’6l to ’9s—a picture so .
blurred with blood and ghastly with j
death as only a Verestchagin might
take from memory and transfer to
canvass. Then the words were a' (
command, heard above the shout of (
battle, the boom of cannon, the sobs
of helpless women. On to Richmond;
it meant destruction to the beautiful
Confederate capital, annihilation to a j
struggling people’s hopes, says the
Memphis Commercial-Appeal. j
Now again in these soft summer
days the same cry sweeps through
the country and roads are blocked
. with the crowds moving on to the ,
city on the James. But the charac
ter of these crowds is changed. They ;
go not angry and defiant, with hostile c
bayonets and growling guns, as went j
the hordes in blue, to quench order c
and beauty with blood and rapine; (
but, clad in the sombre gray in which
they made their gallant fight of four ,
long years, the present crowds go as j
pilgrims to their erstwhile capital, ,
peace in their hearts and memory’s ]
j enkindled torch their beacon light.
And with them go gray-headed ma
trons wbo shared with them the dan i
gers and trials of the ’6os, and smil- 1
, ing, white-souled daughters who (
i know war only from,the stories told
around the sheltered firesides, and t
who, God grant, may never know it t
otherwise! From all over the South
. they gather, these veterans of a past i
struggle, to take each other by the i
hand, to renew old friendships, to
talk over old campaigns and to per- <
petuate in peace and reverence the 1
i recollections of the Lost Cause. <
, What a spectacle they present to the ’
• world as they gather about the spot
i where is to be laid the corner-stone
of the'monument to their civic chief;
a spectacle of valor, of the right sort ■
of resignation, of conquered arms but :
• unconquered patriotism! Thenarrow '
i minds of the North, through the
- medium of a few carping and biased
I newspapers, may seek to decry them,
f to question their purpose, to sneer at
their tattered flag; but the men of
larger intellects and generous souls
> will have no stones to cast at them;
- but with the consideration of mag-
- nanimous victors they will stand
1 aside and let the gray veterans hold
b in peace their carnival of memory.
On, then, to Richmond! Not to
burn and slay and struggle and die;
- but to smile and jsst, to leave undim
t med of battle smoke the blue dome of
t the Mecca city, and to shed no tears
e save those for the long gaps in the
a roll-call answers. • This is the picture
the phrase calls up today; war has
dropped his bloody palette and gentle
- Peace stands before the easel and
1 draws the outlines in tender hues
I, which cannot fade.
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■ t Madame Englantine Godin, a poor
n French woman living in New Jersey.
r has recently' fallen heir to an estate of
r $17,000,000. She never received one
e letter a month before, but she now
Q goes to the postofflce with a basket to
a get her mail, and nearly all the letters
[_ contain proposals of marriage.
THE BOMB TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 18J6,
SONGS AND SCENES.
Si.fi bone Valley.
(TO MISS MABEL HILLYER.)
“I think that I could live forever ’mid the
scenes of Shinbone valley
Where the trembling* aspens quiver and the
winds of summer sally
Forth to join the robins singing in the laurel
scented passes
And the sheep bells softly ringing out among
the breeze blown grasses.”
Thus, from out her warm heart laden with me
morial days of gladness,
Softly spoke the dark eyed maiden, and the
gentle summer madness
Filled my soul with its infection till I found
my fancies flying
Far from labor’s hard subjection, or the toil
er’s ceaseless sighing.
And across the sunbeam bridges fled my
spirit to the mountains
Revelling among the ridges, dreaming by the
cooling fountains.
Here and there on vaulting pinions no task
master keeping tally
Through the summer king’s dominions in the
of Shinbone valley.
Bright-winged birds their plumage preening
in the fragrant wild rose hedges,
And the languid shadows leaning out across
the silvery sedges;
I could hear the partridge calling to his mate
across the tallows
And the flashing waters falling blithely o’er
the sheltered shallows.
Here the golden maned Chattooga through
the verdant valley wanders;
There the silver haired Teloga through some
jas mined glen meanders;
Lookout’s purple peaks invested with strange
fanciful insistence,
Dark Dirtseller, plumed and crested Taylor’s
Ridge far in the distance.
Then at night, when dew gems glisten on the
willows’ tangled tresses e
Oh, how sweet to lie and listen to the soothiug
wind’s caresses.
Other lands may vaunt large measures of the
joys that round them rally,
Give to me these simple pleasures, summer
time in Shinbone valley!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Jack Lawrence And Menlo.
I heard a prominent physician remark
‘‘The water at Menlo is the finest in the
world. It possesses all the constituents
necessary to make up a perfect mineral
water in their proper proportions. It
contains iron alum, magnesia and
lithia, and a person who will go there
and spend a few days cannot remain in
bad health long.”
I have some dear friends who have
just returned from that sequestered cor
ner, and I declare they look like new
people.
They have been completely regenerat
ed, made anew and their expressions of
delight are contageons.
They have set me now to go to Menlo.
Jack Lawrence and Menlo are synony
mous.
The success of one has been equiva
lent to the place.
Few men have shown as much inde
pendent perseverance and indomitable
determination of spirit as Jack Law
rence.
To him is due the opening of the Co
lumbus Southern railroad, giving an
outlet for the rich resources of Broom
town and Shinbone /alleys, with direct
communication with Chattanooga and
Gadsden.
Living there in happy seclusion sur
rounded by all that goes to make life
happiest and most conducive to content
ment, his energies still refuse to be
lulled into lethargy.
Sj he set about the work of opening
up that wonderful valley and giving to
his people the benefits of outside inter
course.
That section has long been recognized
as the golden heart of the garden sec
tion of Georgia.
But people of the outside world have
not yet found out just how grand and
illimitable are its resources.
The half has not been told. It is won
derful to me that the business men of
Rome have not sone to work and se
cured a share in the benefits of the de
velopment of that wonderful region.
In this they have been wofully derelict.
lam sorry to say that they have al
lowed Chattanooga aud Gadsden to in
a large measure absorb the trade of those
rich valleys, all of which naturally be
longs to Rome.
They should never have allowed it to
be so monopolized and they have their
remedy still, in connecting the Chat
tanooga, Rome and Columbus with the
Chattanooga Southern, it being only
six and a half miles from Raccoon to
Menlo, along a valley route, where there
would not be a ten foot cut to be made
alon g the entire route.
Menlo has sprung into prominence,
lately, because of its magnificent sur
roundings and its incomparable medi
cinal waters.
The home of Jack Lawrence is a suf
ficient attraction, to his friends, in itself
with its inviting surroundings.
Outside he has made of it all that a
Georgia farmer’s home should be and
inside it has been embellished by the
bands of his hospitable wife and ac
complished daughter. Miss Willie Law
rence, until it comes very near being the
realization of a perfect home so far as
mortal knowledge goes. '
The day is not far distant when this
little nook will become better known
to the outside world and not only the
pleasure seeker, but the energetic home
builder, will both find their way into its
secluded environment and it will become
a veritable garden of the gods.
It possesses all the prerequisites, now,
and just a little well directed capital
and energy will bring about such a
transformation as has been undreamed
of in that lonely region.
But now it is the ideal land of rest and
repose.
“I think that I could live forever
amid those peaceful and restful sur
roundings,” remarked a young lady to
me. “I went there worn ana weary,
sick and despondent and I came back
well and strong.
“It was so sweet to listen to the rob
ins singing among the scented thickets,
at dawn, and when the sun went down
it was perfectly delicious to hear the
monotonous croon of the wierd cicados.
“I sat and watched the trembling pop
lars and heard from afar the tinkle of
the sheep bells among the Shinbone
passes, till life seemed like a dream of
Lethean loveliness!”
That is why lam writing about that
enchanted land. I need something of
the same kind myself, and if I may not
go I can indulge in the second hand vi
sions and dreams reproduced by one
whose heart and soul have been so thor
oughly saturated with the transcendent
attractions of that beautiful land.
M. M. F.
The democracy of Texas threatens
to appear at the Chicago convention
in bloomers. O, tempore, where are
thy mores?
St. Louis is now connected by long
. distance telephones with New York,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Memphis and
Louisville.
Under the head of “personal” Mon
day’s Augusta Chronicle publishes
the following at the head of its edito
rial columns anent the publication of
B. M. Blackburn’s attack on Captain
Howell: “It is an inflexible will of
The Chronicle never to publish any
article that indulges in violent per
sonalities. Under the present man
agement, there has been no exception
to this rule. We were surprised to
find in Sunday’s Chronicle the viru
lent attack on Capt. E. P. Howell. If
he had been an enemy in place of a
friend, the article would not have
appeared if our attention had been
called to it before publication. In
view of the long established custom
of The Chronicle and of the friendly
relations which have existed for so
many years between Capt Howell and
Mr. Walsh, we feel impelled to make
this explanation. It is proper to add
tfhat Capt. Howell has never deceived
Mr. Walsh either personally or politi
cally. ’ ’
The Spelling: Class
Stand up, ye spellers, now and spell—
Since spelling- matches are the rage,
Spell Phenakistoscope and Knell,
Diphtheria, Syzg-y, and Gauge.
Or take some simple word, as Chilly,
Or Willie, or the garded Lilv.
To spell such words of Syllogism,
And Lachrymose and Synchronism,
And Pentateuch and Saccharine,
Apocrypha and Calendine,
Lactiferous and Cecity,
Jejune and Homeopathy,
Paralysis and Chloroform,
Rhinoceros and Pachyderm,
Metempsychosis, Gherkins, Basque,
It is certainly no easy task.
Kaleidoscope and Tennessee,
Kamtschatka and Dispensary,
Would make some spellers colicky,
Dipththong and Erysipelas,
And Etiquette aud Sassafras,
Infallible and Ptyalism,
Allopathy aud Rheumatism,
And Cataclysm and Beleaguer,
Twelfth, Eighteenth, Rendezvous, Intriguer,
And hosts of other words are found
On English and on classic ground.
Thus Behring Strait and Michaelmas,
Thermodylae, Cordilleras.
Suite, Jalap, Hemorrhage, and Havana,
Cinquefoil and Ipecacuanha.
And Rappahannock, Shenandoah,
And Schuylkill, and a thousand more,
Are words some first-rate spellers miss,
In Dictionary lands like this.
Nor need one think himself a Scroyle,
If some of these his efforts foil;
I Nor deem himeelf undone forever
| To miss the name of either river
• The Dnieper, Seine, or Guadalquivir.
—E. P. Dyer, in Educational Gazette.
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f Dxesrators Sale.
Ea v. rccante era deorcs rendered et the Xt-j
, Term of Floyd Sip irior Court 1835 in thecc
i>. H. Sbeiten et »1 kb Ezeo tors of W. (
1 F voter, decsßsed, againßt W. T. <v Q. u. McVBl
imino • t nl, the said kxoov.tor'i will sell at pub'J.
3 outcry at rhe court house doo: io Borne—f:
. cash—between the usual hoar.- cl public »«c
on the first Tuesday in July mot, to the high; c
- bidder, the following rial estate, tov.it:
An undivided half Interest in lot of lan 1 ITo
3 435. an undivided halt Interevt in the north del
H of No. 436, and an undivided half interest ia
fi.s acres in the not th western portion of Nu
437, all in the 3rd District and 4ih Section oi
.Fiord county, Georgia, and described in a dee:
from D. 1. Gregory to J. J Gregory dated Aprl
s 17th, 1876, and in a deed from John M. Quini.,
Sheriff, to W. G. Foster dated January 6th 1880
1 and to be sold as the property of W. G. Foster,
a deceased.
• D. W. BHFLTON,
0 W. P. FOSTER,
J. U. FOSTER,
8 June 12, 1896. Executore.
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(June 12-1« ’I