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REBUILT THE DAM Tennessee United States Officials to Replace It. BAD BEEN TORN OUT BY CLINCH RIYER Rough O'd Fellow Built a Mill Dam Imped ing Nav.gatlon at the Point’ ot a Gun Forced Official* to Put it Back. A vary singular proceeding and mis demeanor yvas yesterday brought to the attention of United States District At torney Will D Wright, and is, peihaps, without a parallel in the history of fed* eral law in Tennessee. Commerce on the Clinch river amounts to <400,000 per year, There ere a few steamboats plying on the Clinch river, but the main item of its com merce consists of the immense rafts of logs that are floated down to this oity whenever the stage of the water per mits. The Clinch river runs through a very wild section of Tennessee, and along its banks are forests ot the finest and most valuable oak, pine, poplar, walnut, cherry and maple trees This commerce, * has, owing ' to the development of Chattanooga, Atlanta, and other places in this Quarter of the south, grown wonderfully of late years; in fact, so much so the last session of coqgress $41,000 was appropriated to im prove the channel, and remove obstruc tions from this tributary of the Tenues see river. Following the appropriation and pursuant to instructions from the war department, Maj. Dan C. Kingman last spring sent a large body of men, well supplied with tools, etc., and under the superintendence of Master Laborer E. R. Nelles to Osborn Ford, Va., which is tKe head of navigation on the Clinch river, and 35 miles north of the Tennessee line. Everything went well until Aug. 30, at which time they reached Big Falls, in Hancock county, Tenn., 75 miles below Osborn Ford. The re port ot Master Laborer Nelles to Maj. Kingman on what happened when they reached the above place is truly interesting. Briefly it is as follows: A Mill Dam Across the River. On arriving at Big Falls, they were surprised to find a mill dam extending completely across tbe river from bank, to bank. The dam was built of bould ers and brush, and was one and one half feet above the level of tbe river, which had no other outlet save a sluiceway, [comparatively narrow, which served as a means of operating a large-sized mill on the right bank. The mill and dam were built and owned by adl exceedingly dangerous and selfish old mountaineer of tbe name of William Lawson, who, with gun in hand had defied every attempt to remove it by log men who rafts bad invariably been wrecked there. J. H. Catron, J. B. Catron, J. A. Pearcy, E. E. Tignor, and J. M. Bowen, raft and steamboat pilots had told Mr. Nelles that this was the .greatest ob struction to navigation in the river. Tire Down The Dam. On the arrival of the party they tore down a part of the dam eight or ten feet wide in order to get their boats and batteaux through. In so doing three of the boats were wrecked aad sunk, to gether with a large number of valuable tools tbe damage amounting to severnl hundred dollars. After an immense amount of labor and trouble the government fleet was • man that robs men not only of their money, but of their ability to make it, and of their health and life. And yet men actually court the advances of this deadly enemy. Its name is consumption. Thousands of bright men and women are passive victims in its clutch. Its daily victims are numbered by thousands. A sure cure for this dread disease is found in Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It goes directly to the seat of the trouble. It restores vigorous action to the digestive organs, tones up the liver, and makes the appetite good. It makes the assimilation perfect and supplies the blood with the elements that build up healthy tissue. It acts upon the lungs driving out all impuri ties and disease germs. It soothes the shat tered nerves and they resume their normal function of imparting healthy activity to all the organs of the body. All Druggists sell it. Nothing else is “just as good.’’ •■Dr. Pierce, I.am one of your most grateful patients,” writes Mrs. Anule M. Norman, of Equinuuk, Wayne Co., Pa. “I have taken •Golden Medical Discovery,’ also ‘ Favorite Pre scription ' and ‘ Pellets ’ with wonderful results. I am, as many of. my friends tell me. like the dead brought to life. The doctors said I had consumption and death was only a matter of time. That was six years ago. I concluded to tnryour medicine. I continued until I had taken nine bottles of • Discovery ’ and several bottles of ‘ Pellets.’ I got well and have done a great deal of hard work since.” What more need be said of a book after the one statement: “ 680,000 copies sold at $1.50 each?’* That book was Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. In that many homes it is known as the best medical book ever published in any language. Sev eral chapters relate exclusively to diseases peculiar to women. There is now ready an enormous edition that is absolutely free. This edition is bound in heavy paper. Send twenty-one one-cent stamps to pay cost of mailing only. If fine French cloth binding is desired, send to cents extra (31 cents in all). Address, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. <- • brought through and some of the sunken boats and tools recovered. While this work was in progress Mr. Nelles ordered Mr. Catron, their pilot and river guide, to call on Mr Lawson and order him to remove the dam. Knowing that Lawson was a regular “bad man frotn Pigeon Creek, ” Pilot Catron took Messrs. Car penter and Darnell, of tbe party, along with him. When they arrived at Mr. Lawson’s bouse they found the old man armed to the teeth with a gun and several revolvers (be had heard about tbe government party destroying part of his dam) and looking for trouble, Mr. Catron proposed to remove tbe dam at tbe cost of the government, but Mr. Lawson saidhe’d“be d—d if they would do anything of the sort;” that if they didn’t repair that portion of his dam they had destroyed just as they had found it he would have all hands arrested.“as sure .as the river flowed.’’ Mr. Nelles, fearing that some additional expense might be in curred, was obliged to repair the dam “just as be had found it.” And that is bow Mr. Lawson obey ed Uncle Sam in the matter of re moving his dam. NO SLEEP FOR THREE MONTHS; One Cause of Sleeplessness That Can be Readily Overcome. Mr. Wm. Handschu of 56th St., Cot ton Alley, Pittsburg, Pa., expresses him self as follows regarding the new remedy for that common and obstinate disease, piles: “I take pleasure instating that I was so afflicted with piles that for three months I got no regular sleep; I be came completely prostrated, the doctors did me no good; my brother told me of the new remedy for piles, the Pyramid Pile Cure; I purchased from my drug gist three 50 cent bottles and* they com pletely cured. I am once more at my work and but for this excellent medicine I shou dbe on my back. I take great pleasure in writing this letter because so many people are sufferers from this trouble who like myself did not know where to look for a permanent, reliable, safe cure. Experience with the Pyramid Pile Cure in the past three years has dem onstrated to the medical profession, as well as to thousands of sufferers from piles, that it is the safest and most ef fectual cure ever offered to the public, containing no opiates or poisons of any kind, painless and convenient to handle and being sold by druggists at 50 cents and $1 per box, is within the reach of every sufferer. Very frequently two or three boxes have made a complete cure of chronic cases that had not yielded to other remedies for years. There is scarcely a disease more ag gravating and obstinate to cure than the various forms of piles and it is a common practice to use ointments, salves and similar preparations con taining dangerous poisons to remove the trouble. Tbe Pyramid has super ceded all of these ineffectual remedies and no one suffering with any rectal trouble make any mistake in giving tbe Pyramid a trial. If in doubt as to the nature of your trouble send to tbe Pyramid Drug Co. Albion, Mich., for a valuable little book on piles, describing the method of cure. - Any druggist can furnish the Pyra mid Pile Cure as it is the best known and most popular remedy for pilesand if you ask him he can doubtless refer you to many people in your vicinity who have been cured completely by it. CA.STORIA.. The fae- „ simile CANJELLING DATES. Theatrical J Companies Drives Oat of the South by the Quarantines, The yellow fever scare and quar antines are driving theatrical companies away from their southern engagements, and may keep Rome out of her first shows. The Nancy Hanks company has left Savannah on the steamer Kansas City, after cancelling all its engagements in the south. The com pany was booked to play Wednesday night in Macon, last night in Columbus, tonight in Montgomery, and then jump to New Orleans for a week’s engage ment. The New Orleans dates were pre viously cancelled on account of yellow fever being epidemic there, which neces sitated the closing of all the theatres. Manager Beede says he could have filled the Macon, Columbus and Montgomery engagements, but he was afraid to ven ture beyond Savannah, for after he reached Montgomery be would be blocked; and, again, be did not want to run any risk of endangering the lives of the members of his company by carry ing them so close to where the fatal malady is so prevalent. Tbe company felt better satisfied since knowing they were' not to go to Ala bama, for they were all fearful of catch ing the fever. After reaching New York Manage'* Beede says he will try to fill in the time between now and Octo ber 10, when he will reopen in Nash ville, Tenn,, in Pennsylvania cities. Arthur F. Warde, the advance agent of the company, was recalled and he ar rived Wednesday morning from Macon, He had quite an experience jumping from town to town dodging quarantine officers. He got as far as Montgomery, but was not allowed to remain there longer than a few hours after it was found out that he had been iu Atlanta last week. Just try a 100. box of Capoarets, the fines; liver and bowel regulator ever made. A man fears and abhors the high wayman who at the point of the i revolver robs him of his money. The mere thought of the ruffian who ■.robs by violence Hmakes a man ’ shudder. There is a deadlier enemy than the highway- THE HOME TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1887 GKTYOOR SEATS. Lad Im Free Monday Night Only • For This Attraction. If you want a desirable seat for the opening night of the Woodward-War ren Co. It will be a good idea if you go to Trevitt’s drug store and get it without delay. The Woodward-Warren Company, which begins a week’s engagement at tbe opera house next Monday night, is undoubtedly the very best popular price organizations playing in the south. At the heads tands those well known favorites, H. Guy , Woodward and Bessie Warren, and the supporting company is fully up to the standard. Monday night they will present the screaming force comedy, “A Practical Joke,’! and if they do not open to “standing room only” it will be the first time they have failed to do so this season. Prices 10, 20 and 30 cents, and every lady, when accompanied by another person holding one paid 30 cents ticket, will be admitted free of charge Monday night only. Ladles Free. For Monday night only the Wood ward-Warren Co., propose to admit ladies free of charge when each is ac companied by another person hold ing a paid thirty cent ticket. Monday night the screaming force comedy “A Practical Joke” will be the bill. Get seats at Trevitt.s drug store. Don’t bolt your food, it irritates your stomach. Choose digestible food and chew it. Indigestion is a dangerous sickness. Proper care prevents it. Sha ker i igestive Cordial cures it. That is the long and short of indigestion. Now the question is: Have you got indiges tion? Yes, if you have pain or discom fort after eating, headache, dizziness, nausea, offensive breath, heartburn, languor, weakness, fever, jaundice, flatulence, loss of appetite, irritability, constipation, etc. Yes, you have indiges tion. To cure it, take Shaker Digestive ’ Cordial. The medicinal herbs and j plants of which Shaker Digestive Cordial is composed, help to digest the food in i your stomach; help to ' strengthen your ; stomach. When your stomach is strong. ! care will keep it so. Shaker Disgestive Cordial is for sale by druggist, price 10 cents to SI.OO per bcttle. COLORED WOMAN LAWYER. Miss Lytle Is the First In the United States. Miss Lutie A. Lytle, a young mulatto woman' of Topeka, has the distinction of. being the only colored woman law- || w J ' Vi' 1 MISS LUTIE A. LYTLE. yer in the United States. She was th<J first woman to be admitted to the bar in Tennessee, where she obtained hex legal education, and now she has re turned to Kansas, where she means tff I Tutt’s Pills Cure All Liver Ills. Twenty Years Proof. Tutt’s Liver Pills keep the bow els in natural motion and cleanse the system of all impurities An absolute cure for sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, con stipation and kindred diseases. “Cari’t de without them” R.. P. Smith, Chilesburg, Va. writes I don’t know how I could do without them. I have haa Liver disease for over twenty years. Am now entirely cured. i Tutt’s Liver Pills practice car precession. trat Miss LytU does not mean to depend on fees alone. She has designs on some of the office! which the state legislature has to dis pose of and she means to break into politics. She does not choose Kansas as her field of operations merely because it is her home, but mainly on account of the fact that in the Sunflower State her sex will be less of a handicap than in other commonwealths. Miss Lytle is 23 years old and is in telligent and good looking. Her father was, before the war, a slave on the es tate of Colonel Patrick Sloane, near Chilhowee, Tenn. About 20 years ago he moved to Kansas and engaged in business. He has been successful and is regarded as the richest colored man in the state. Lutie was given the. best of educational advantages and improved them. In 1891, through her father’s political influence, she was appointed one of the engrossing clerks for the legislature, and this experience in offi'ce holding led her to -be ambitions for a further public career. She decided that in order to be prop erly equipped for the struggle she should be a lawyer, so she went to Nashville and entered the Central Ten nessee college, an institution for the higher education of colored students. There she took a two years’ law course and last spring was graduated with high honors. She was the class valedic torian and was not only furnished with a diploma, but with a license granting her the right to practice in any of the courts in Tennessee. The other day she went to Memphis and was formally ad mitted to the bar. Since then she has ’ returned to Topeka, she has opened a law office, and during the next campaign she may be expected to take no small part. BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE The best salve in the world for outs or bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheu’- fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chi blain corns and all skin eruptions am' posi •svely cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 oents per box. For sale by Curry-Arrington Co., druggists, Rome Ga. MISS LANGTRY TO MARRY. Tbe Report I'hat the Jersey Lily Will Wed i’riuce Keterhear in True. San Francisco. Sept. 24—The an nouncement that Miss Lillie Langtry will marry Prince Esterhazy is con firmed. Attorney Henry 0. McPike of this city is authority for the announce ment which is to be taken in connec tion with the statements persistently and repeatedly published since she se cured her divorce iu May last, as to Miss Langtry’s prospective marriage to the distinguished head of an ancient house. ■‘l have recently received,” said Mr. McPike, “from my client, Mrs. Lang try, notice of her intention to return to California by the end of November, Prince Esterhazy will accompany her and immediately upon their arrival here they will be married iu Lake; county, I presume, for her home is j there. ■ “Because they have preferred to be ’ married in this state it must ndt be ar- , gued that either Mrs, Langtry or Prince ! Esterhazy regards the former’s divorce ; lacking in legality in any other juris- | diction. On the contrary they are ad- , vised by their solicitors in London that the decree granted at Lakeport has freed her absolutely from Edward Langtry, so that she may marry in any part of world, if she chooses.” , Everybody Srys So. Oascarets Can't.v Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the age, pleas • at and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. to-dny; 10, 25, 50 cents. Sold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. Blood poisoh A tlary BLOOD POISON permanently cured in 15 t 035 days. You can be treated at home for same price under same guaran ty. If yon prefer to come here we will con tract to pay railroad f areand hotel bills,and noebarge. If we fail to cure. If you have takea’mer cury, iodide potash, and still have aches and pains, Macons Patches In mouth, Sore Throat, Pimples, Copper Colored Spots, Ulcers on any part of theToody, Hair or Eyebrows falling out, it is this Secondary BLOOD POISON we guarantee to cure. We solicit the most obsti nate cases and chaUenge the world for • case we cannot cure. Thia <H»e«ee has always baffled the skill of the most eminent physi cians, 9500,000 capital behind our uncondi tional guaranty. Absolute proofs sent sealed on application. Address COOK REMEDY CO.. W7 Masonic Temple, CHICAGO. IT.T- Why not Buy a Piano At Home Where you are in position to get one at the lowest possible price, from ons of the largest dealers in the South. The E. E. Forbes Music House • is enjoying one of the mdst prosperous year’s in the history of its exigence, and is better prepaired than ever to trade with you in away to save you money. Call on or write them for prices on CONOVER, KARNICK & BACH, BEHR BROS., KNABE, CCHBERT AND KINGSBERRY PIANOS- 1 — Found at 327 Broad St.. Rome, Ga. S. P. DAVIS, Manager. Good Sloop Moans Good Health. An Account of Two People who Could not Sleep. The Cause and the Method Used to Remedy Cie Annoying Trouble. the m simi teimw to i cioci. From the Gazette, Ft. Wayne, Ind. I had been visiting a comrade who had formerly served with me in the army, and was waiting for a street» rto take me home, when it began raining with such violence that I took refuge in a drug store at the cor ner of the street. In the store was a middle aged woman earnestly talking with the drug gist about Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Being a reporter, I asked her what connection she had with thyse pills. She Mid: *’ I had the misfortune recently to lose my husband after a protracted illness and, as I had 'overfatigued myself in caring f r him, my health, which up to that time had been perfect, failed completely. My trouble be gan with indigestion; I constantly became weaker, lost visibly in weight and could no longer assimilate the most easily digestible food. I procured medical assistance with out, however, obtaining any improvement. I felt so anxious in consequence that my nerves also became affected and finally I could no longer sleep. When I arose in the morning I was so tired and my limbs felt so heavy that I was unfit for performing the lightest housework. By the advice of my friends I called another doctor, but he, too, could procure me no alleviation. “How often have I, when restless with pains in my limbs, remained awake on my bed and heard every hour of the night strike without being able to close an eye; how Jften have I wished for death. Finally my itate became so pitiful that I was unable any longer to leave my bed. A lady friend then paid me a visit and at her earnest request I •greed to make a last trial, this time with Dr- Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. A.fler a few days I already felt a slight im provement, the feeling of fatigue in my limits Disappeared, my nervousness vanished, appe tite returned, my stomach began to perform its proper functions as formerly, and now I am as well as ever I was in my'life. I know rlearly that it was Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People which saved my life, and whenever I have an opportunity I recommend them.” (I afterwards learned the name and address of the lady. It was Magdalena Klein, of No. 41 West Lewis Street, Fort Wayne, Ind.) Being impressed with the above storv and learning of another who had received bene fit from the use of the pills, I visited Mr. Richard Schwind, of No. 20 Huron Street. s< 'bwind is an employe of the Wayne Knitting nulls and a man of steady Imbit.. He worked alternately; one week during the day time and the next week at night. His system seems to have been affected by this continual changing, so that he was soon obliged to seek the assistance of a skillful doctor. His trouble began with most alarm ing heart palpitation and nervous headaches. These attacks caused him to suffer the most terrible pains, on account of which he could obtain no proper sleep. He often complained of the continued failure of his strength, so that by the advice of his doctor he gave up his work for a tifne. But it seemed as if this forced inactivity only increased his trouble. He worried, and fejt great anxiety concerning the prospects of his family; he lost all vital energy and finally became in different to everything. As be bad no appe tite for food, he fell off in body in an appall ing way. Finally he was confined to his bed and had to lie there about six weeks, so that his family doctor gave him up and declared JOHN H. REYNOLDS, President. B. I. HUGHES, Cashier P. H. HARDIN, Vice President. FIRST NATIONAL BANK i ROME, GEORGIA. Capital and Surplus $300,000. AU Accommodations Consistent With Sa's Banking Ex j tended to Our Customers. Tennessee Centennial Exposition," The Exhibit of the i Nashville, Chattanooga * -St. Loois Railway At the Terminal Station in the Centennial Trains leave the. Grounds is one of the most interesting. in- Union Depot, structive, and costly displays at the Expo- Nashville, every sition. and should be seen by every visitor. Fifteen minutes It consists of an artistically arranged dis for the Expositon play of Agricultural Products, Minerals, Terminal Timbers .Valuable Relics, Curiosities, etc, . Station, collected from points along the line trav- The Quickest and eled by this road, which penetrates the Best Route, most fertile and picturesque portions of the South. Don’t Fan to Hee It! Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy cures indigestion, Bad Breath, Sour Stomach, Hiccoughs, -Heart-burn. i £§*“Guaranteed. h . he could do nothing more for him and that the resources of his science was exhausted. A neighboring family which had just moved into the district and heard of his cose, urged him to take Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, but he only shook his head incredulously. Finally, merely to please his wife, he consented, and we can only de scribe as marvelous the beneficent and heal ing action of these Pink Pills of Dr. Wil liams’ on his frame. In the short space of three weeks he not only recovered his health, but he became so strong that he was able to start his work again, and up to the present he is enjoying admirable health. He there fore justly says that Dr. Williams’ Pinlt Pills for Pale People have saved him from death and have preserved the bread-winner for an anxious family. LIKE AS OLD CLOCK. From the Republican, Fresno, Cal. A case reported from Fresno- County is that of a well-know former resident of Kings burg, though now residing at Selma. Mr. J. M. Purves is an old gentleman of seventy, who, during his long residence in Kingsburg, was beloved alike by young and old, and he is equally endeared to the people of his new home. It was about July 15, 1898, that a reporter of the Republican met Mr. Purves, and was astonished to see such an improvement in bjs appearance. He looked ten years younger and much stouter then when he moved away from Kingsburg for the benefit of his health, and he was congratulated on his improved appearance. “ I was all run down when I moved away,” Mr. Purves said, “something like an old clock that is worn out, but I have undergone such repairs as I think will keep me in run ning order for many years to come if no ac cid< nt occurs.” “What was the agent that wrought the change, Mr. Purves?” the reporter asked. “ Was it Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People ? they seem to be doing all the heal ing in Fresno County.” “ Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are the very things that have built me up,” Mr. Purves answered. “I happened to read one of the ad ertisements of their healing qualities, and then read several more, and omehow there was something in the way the testimonial read that assured me they were true. One in* the San Francisco Ex aminer especially impressed me, and I sent' at once and bought some of the pills. I took the m as directed, and I do not think I need tell you what they have done for me. lam quite recovered and set back in tbe journey of life at least twenty years. I have done moro work since I have taken them than for a long, long time before. Indeed I may say since long before yo were lorn. “I took Only two boxes in all, but I shall always keep them by me as long as I live, in Case of relapse. (Signed) J. M. Pveves.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People contain, in a condensed form, a]] the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood pnd restore shattered nerves. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sal low cheeks. In men they effecta radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, over work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, ana may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y.