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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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NEW YORK. MANAGER.
Colutflbia should have a “Tillman
Day” at her state fair.
Georgia has certainly had her full
share of elections this year and the
end is not yet.
Every democrat in Floyd county [
should turn out and participate in
the mass meeting Saturday.
A Kentuckian named Settle defeated
W. C. P. Breckenridge for congress.
That Settles Breckenridge.
The Chattanooga News says that
‘■Judge John A. Moon again broke
the record yesterday.” He didn’t
get full however.
Rome now boasts of two of the
crack football teams of the state.
They are ready to crack heads with
any and all comers. ~
An item is going the rounds about
the life of the big 100 ton gun. No
body has attempted to guess at the
I duration of the life of the campaign
liar.
Just leave Ella Wheeler Wilcox
alone, Brother Bayne. Advertising is
the chief end of some people who
value a sensation far above any nobler
sentiment.
In addition to the orders of the
1 White Cross and the Red Cross an
other has been instituted at Vienna
called the Green Cross. We still have
our ‘‘Cross of Gold.”
The Charleston News and Courier
has a column editorial on “How to
Help The Fair.” Here ih Georgia the
fair have learned to help themselves
to anything in sight.
I If the Bancroft cannot get through
the Dardanelles, suppose the govern
ment try the tug Dauntless. She
seems to be the “Artful Dodger’’ of
the American marine.
A preacher in Llanddyfancum-Lian.
fairmathafarneithaf in Anglesey,
Wales, is on trial for drunkenness.
He probably tried to pronounce the
name of his parish, and was thereby
driven to drink.
k If Bishop Thomas A. Becker, of
('Savannah, is elected to fill Bishop
I Keene’s place in the Catholic Univer.
hsity in Washington, Rev. Father M.
y. Clifford, now in charge of the Rom •
■Parish, will stand a good chance of
Mieing elected to the Bishopric of
■ieorgia, a position that he is emi
■kently fitted to fill.
TURN OUT SATURDAY.
On Saturday next, pursuant to the
call of the County Democratic Execu
five committee, there will lie amass
meeting at the court house for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the
state convention which meets in
Atlanta November 18, to nominate
candidates for the four justiceships of
the supreme court. These justices
will be elected by the people on the
third Wednesday in December.
It is very important that every dem
ocrat in the county should turn out
and participate in the meeting. North
Georgia is entitled to representation
on the supreme b?nch and Rome fur
nishes a candidate who is the peer of
any man in the state for that high and
honorable position, Judge Joel Bran
ham. Floyd is entitled to six dele
gates in the state convention.
Being one of the six largest counties
ia the state, and accorded three rep
resentatives because of the number of
population, it is all important that
we should send our best men to At
lanta to take part in the nominating
convention. For the first time in the
history of the state the people have a
voice, directly, in the selection of
supreme court justices and they ought
to do the work in the most acceptable
manner.
One justice will be chosen to suc
ceed Judge Lumpkin and three others
will be added to the bench so as to
lighten the burdens and facilitate the
work of the court. There are plenty
of able men in the state who are not
mixed up in politics and out of that
class of men the new justices should
be selected. The people are weary of
having politics enter into the question
of selection of the judiciary. For that
purpose the amendment was passed.
Turn out Saturday and help select
delegates to the convention.
A BUSINESS BOOM.
The upward tendency of business
noted in our dispatches from the
Tradesman yesterday are easily ap- '
parent to the most casual observer.
By seven o'clock yesterday morning
150 bales of eotton were seen on Broad
street and the teamsters from the
country made a continuous procession
from the Broad street bridge to Fifth
avenue, a' distance of five blocks'
awaiting their turn to have the cotton
weighed.
The revival in trade is coming right
home to us. We observe that the
American Bimetallic union is going
to make its headquarters permanent
at Washington and that General Com
monwealer Goodroads Coxey has a
new scheme for government owner
ship of railroads, free lunch stands
and news butchers’ privileges for 1900-
but none of these things appeal to
the public like a relaxation of the
hard times.
What we want and what the Amer
ican people will hail with delight, is a
revival of trade and manufacturing
industries that will give honest men
plenty of work to do and provide them
compensation for their labor. That is
the secret of true happiness and con
tentment. Give us a rest from politics
and bring on more business.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE RATES
Shippers and receivers of fruits and
vegetables are making efforts to secure
a reduction of freight rates between
the orchards and plantations of the
South and the markets of the North
and West. They desire also to have
established uniform and stable rates,
in order that they may know pre
cisely what they are to expect when
they order a carload of produce from
one point to another. Nothing is
more annoying, and really dragging
upon the fruit and vegetable produc
ing business than the uncertainty
with regard to rates that has existed
heretofore. Besides being uncertain,
the rates have discriminated against
certain sections. It is desired now
that a.schedule of uniform rates to the
different markets shall be established.
The board of general traffic managers,
with whom the fruit and vegetable
people have to deal, have consented
to receive information bearing upon
the situation, with a view to equaliz
ing and establishing rates, says the
Savannah News.
Secretary Phillips of the New York
committee, representing the fruit and
vegetable producers and commission
merchants, give notice that facts and
figures should be at once placed before
the transportation authorities. In a
short time the making up of tariff
schedules will begin, and when the
schedules have been made up and the
crops begin to move, it will be a very
hard matter, if not an impossibility,
to secure changes before the expira "
tion of another year.
The board of general traffic man
agers is made up able men, who will
desire to have presented to them only
important facts and real argument®.
They will not entertain insignificant
c mplaintr or statements unsup-
I ported by facts. Volnraes of testimony
are not wanted, but clear-cut state
ments of conditions complained of,
I together with the suggested remedies,
THE HOME TRIBUTE. THU US DAK. NOVEMBER 12. 1896.
backed up with figures and other data.
It is believed that the outcome of the
effort for securing the rates wanted
will depend in a great measure upon
the support given the movement by
the growers, and their organization.
The matter is important, and should
have immediate attention. Georgia
and Florida fruit and vegetable grow
ers should take heed and govern
themselves accordingly.
SONGS AND SCENES.
Kegret.
Regret, regret, regret!
Sad eyes with sorrow’s salt dews wet
That backwatd turn with longing gaze
O’er life’s forlorn and wasted ways,
O'er paths by errors all beset
And fruitless thistles of regret!
Regret, regret, regret!
The darkest ill the soul hath met
Is uncompared to this drear word,
The loneliest note by mortal heard,
The long accumulating debt
To nature due—regret, regret!
Regret, regret, regret!
W ith anguish torn the heart, and yet
It turns from hope’s darkened graves
And still for human kindness craves
When all the waves that chafe and fret
Life’s cheerless shores—oh, vain regret!
Regret, regret, regret!
Ensnared in sin’s daceitful net
At last the hopeless victim wakes
With agony and wild heart breaks,
Then might its misery beget A
Some sympathy from that regret!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Mack and the Blind Tiger.
Mack is in trouble again. I told him
when he wrote me up the last time that
retribution would overtake him. That
favorite billie goat of his has disgraced
himself completely.
Mack had missed him from around
home and was somewhat uneasy about
his pet, but decided that he had simply
taken a trip down to Cedar Bluff to
visit his friends there.
It is no uncommon thing for him to
steal a ride on the cowcatcher of Con
ductor Williams’ fast mail train. He
will ride down to Cedar Bluff and after
frolicking around there for a day or
two, he will catch the next train and re
turn to Coosa, none the worse for wear.
So Mack went down to Cedar Bluff to
see if he could find his pet and looked
in vain in the front porch of every
building in town, and even on top of the
horse rack where the goat frequently
rests himself.
But he was disappointed in his search
and wandered on down to Round Moun
tain. There be received tidings. Pen
nington reported that he had observed
a disreputable looking goat with terra
cotta whiskers, consorting with some
of the habitues of the wood alcohol dis
tillery.
So Mack put out dow to the mouth of
the little stream wnere the waste from
the alcohol plant is emptied into the
Coosa river. There he fround his pet
ripstaving drunk.
He was perched on a rook near the
shore, mumbling ont something about
Alabama politics, while stretched
around him were half a dozen of his
kind in various stages of intoxication.
They had found out that the slops
from the alcohol plant would ‘ ‘make
drunk come, ” and they had taken ad
vantage of the fact to get on a grand
razee. A number of half emptied to
mato cans showed that they bad been
dissipating quite freely.
The naturally odor of the caproic
acid, which renders the goat as frag
rant as the breath of the maiden de
scribed in the Songs of Solomon, was
mingled with the fumes of alcohol, and
it was simply overpowering.
Mack says that he has attended many
a rural election when the boys looked
on the jug when It was but
never, in all his experience, has he wit
nessed such a jamboree as his pet was
engaged in.
He called him by name and was an
swered by a snarl of defiance. He at
tempted to coerce his favorite into quit
ting the direputable crowd, but the
goat made a lunge at him, missed!.l
aim and tumbled heels overhead into
the creek. From the surroundings he
was led to believe that his pet had been
shooting craps and he realized how
strict the Alabama authorities were on
crap shooting.
Only last year a drummer was ar
rested on Sand Mountain and fined for
playing a gameof solitaire in his own
room with the doors locked and the
blinds closed.
The justice of the peace only remitted
the fine after he and his two bailiffs had
been allowed to sample the contents of a
quart bottle of Old Nectar. They are
very strict down in Alabama.
When the goat emergsd from the wa
ter he was mad. You’ve heard people
say “Mad as a wet hen.” A hen is cot
a circumstance in anger to a wet billie
goat. Hechal'enzed everything in sight.
Mack had provided himself with a
rope, aud finally succeeded in lassoing
the obstreperous animal aud tying him
head and foot, he toted him up to the
depot and started for home.
Billie was a mighty sick goat and
* A'
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’
Fifty Years Ago.
Who could imagine that this should be
The place where, in eighteen ninety-three
That white world-wonder of arch and
dome
Should shadow the nations, polychrome.•,
Here at the Fair was the prize conferred
On Ayer’s Pills, by the world preferred.
Chicago-like, they a record show,
Since they started— 50 years ago.
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills
have, from the time of their
preparation, been a continuous
success with the public. And
that means that Ayer’s Pills
accomplish what is promised
for them; they cure where
others fail. It was fitting,
therefore, that the world-wide
popularity of these pills should
be recognized by the World’s
Fair medal of 1893 —a fact
which emphasizes the record:
50 Years of Cures.
-—<■ll■■ » I H I I »
Mack had to give him a big dose of
camphor and aromatic spirits of ammo
nia and half a bottle of liver regulator to
straighten him out.
fie had muddied himself all over, his
whiskers were in a tangle and ha looked
like he had that rich preen and yellow
taste in his mouth. Mack says that it
almost broke his heart when he saw his
pet bucking up against a blind tiger of
wood alcohol. M. M. F.
Why can’t the cotton compresses
and the farmers come together on the
cotton tie question? The compresses
insist on the flat tie, while many far
mers use the wire. There is a conflict
here thht ought to be reconciled be
fore another crop is put on the mar
ket. If farmers would work in con
cert the tie trust might be brought to
terms- —Americus Times-Recorder,
The Brunswick Call commenting on
an item in these columns relative to
the new line of steamers to be put on
between Savannah and Europe, calls
attention to the fact that these steam
ers will, touch at Charleston and
Brunswick, also. They could n< t
enter a finer harbor on the Atlantic
coast than Brunswick’s landlocked
bay.
An Ohio man, arrested the other
Hay for bigamy, acknowledged that
he had seven wives, but “supposed it
was all right because he had changed
his name each time.” That is the
way the women do when they marry.
The old reliable Mobile Register
issued a sixteen page edition Tuesday
showing up the advantages of that
ancient town which is recently taking
on a new growth and developing a
large export trade.
Georgia was once the leading gold
mining region in the union. It is to
be hoped that the turn in the tide of
political affairs will re-opeojthe mines
and add their rich product to the
w. a Ith of the world.
Dear Heart.
The song - you loved has failed and hown.
Dear heart.
Its woodland music silent growu.
Dear heart,
Our roses shatter in the blast,
And all the blue is overcast;
The glory was too bright to last.
Dear heart, dear heart.
Our parted hands shall meet no more.
Dear hevrt.
The white wave sobs along the shore,
Dear hear ,
The mountain slopes renew their green,
The voiceless heavens overlean;
But fate has passed onr lives between,
Dear heart, dear heart.
What is, must be. I make no moan,
Dear heart,
I walk the thorny way alone.
Dear heart,
But treasured deep the memory lies
Os loving words and tender eyes,
Os passionate prayers and no replies,
D.ar heart, dear heart.
Go, and God bless your wandering feet,
Da ar heart,
Crush down the love-dream frail and fFet,
• Dear heart.
And soon—so soon—you wi’l forget;
Smile and be glad, with no regret.
For one who loves and loves you yet,
Dear heart dear Heart
Notice.
GEORGI X, Floyd County
Nor cub hereby given that# petition signed
by flf een or more freeboluers nt the Bz9ih
( Vatrerf) district. G. M. of Slid countv. hag
been died in my office bkluir ha' the benefits
O-1 le provisions of sr cti ne 1419 .450. 1451, 1452
45,J ano 1454 of tbc I'oile of Georgia of 1882, and
t e amendments thereto, shall apply to said
8I h (Watters) tils rict, M. of eaul county 1
'th-r give notice Ih t said -latter will be
1 card on be 2id d ■■ of December next, at 10
o’clock, a. tn , at effi e of O>dinary, Rome.
»loyd county. G i., and if no valid ol
ate shown an election will be ordered to occur
on the 18,’ day -t u cimb. r 1996 to decide the
question of ’ For Fence ”or “Stock Law.’’ ac
cording to the Statutes in (such case made and
1 rovided.
Given under my band and official signature.
5 his Nov. 11, 1896. JOHN I’. DAVIS,
Ordinary.
RY HARD DRIVING j
At the cost of production, we have been
enabled to reduce prices to a point where
the purchaser of lumber and general
building woodwork has many advantages
which he certainly never had before—
advantages which he probably does not
realize —special advantages which we are
offering and would like to tell him about.
The Prices Are Reduced
But there is no reduction in Jhe quality
of our goods, nor in the alert service
which we grant as an attractive feature
of our business.
O’Neill Manufacturing Company
HOME, GEORGIA.
t Doors, Sash, Blinds, Turned Work,.
Scroll Work, Lumber,
Shingles, Etc., Etc.
W. P. SIMPSON. Pres. I. D. FORD, Vice-Pres. T. J. SIMPSON, Cashier
EXCHANGE BANK OF ROME.
ROME. GEOROIA.
CAPITAL STOCK, SIOO,OOO
Accounts of firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Special attention
given to collections. Money loaned on real estate or other good securities.
Prompt and courteous attention to customers.
Board of Directors.
A. R. SULLIVAN, J. A. GLOVER,
C*A. HIGH!, 1. D. FORD,
W, P. SIMPSON.
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Yon can find everything kept in a first-class grocery store. Goode
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