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' TARIFF TALK.
Some Interesting Interviews
on the Subject
OF THE WILSON BILL
Nearly all Favor it and Think
it Will Have a Benefi
cial Effect.
In no section of the country has the
proposed tariff measure, known as the
Wi'sou bill, excited more attention, and
caused more comment, than in the south
Particularly is this true of this section,
where manufactories have sprung up be
cause of the naiural advantages, an<
though young are competing with all
sections of the union.
Here where iron ores abound and fur*
naces flourish, to the benefit of factories
of all kinds, a charge in the tariff mean
something, and the one proposed has at
tracted and is attracting the attention oi
the pe pie.
What will be the effect?
That is the question often asked and
often answered recently, bearing espe
cially on our own particulars, interests.
The answer may vary in detail, bu'
among a number asked this ’by
Tribune, nearly ail believe
there i» any apprecutb'e-effect at all it
will be beneficiary.
Below will be found some answers
given. Most of them are from men eithei
directly or indirectly interested in some
manufacturing enterprise, and their
opinions carry weight.
Iron Oree and Furnaces.
Mr, J. R. Barber, of Cedartown, who
is conducting mining operations and is
manager of the Cherokee furnace, was
here yesterday, and said: “I don’t
think the poposed bill will be detrimen
tal to this section. Iron ore is on the
free list, but when you take into consid
eration the freight to inland points, it
can not compete with our mines. It may
have the effect of buildjng up furnaces
on the sea coast, and may hurt us in our
sales of pig iron by limiting the market,
but taking everything inV> considera
tion I am of the opinion tbalthe bill will
not deteriorate the value of «ir mineral
interests at ail ”
Hines M. Smith —“I understand that
iron ore is being delivered at the Rome
furnace for $1 30 per ton. That is
cheaper than it can be done anywhere
else in the world, and there is nothing for
us to tear. It would cost more thau that
per ton to bring it here from any sea
port. The Wilson bill can not hurt
southern furnaces, though it may have
some effect on the Lake Superior fur
naces.”
J. H. Reynolds.—“l do not “think the
new bill will affect iron interests. There
is already an increased demand for iron,
and by some companies the price has
been raised. Few southern furnaces
have increased it as yet. but, as I said,
the demand is good, and the business is
looking up. The Wdson bill ehou’d ba
passed at one*, and all business will
startout at once on the new basis. Right
here let me say we must have revet
ano I am in favor of an income tax.
hardest tax in the world to pay is on
estate, for there is no revenue fromßSp
The money ought to c 'me from au KSi
O.mfltsi. lam opposed to taxing
porations, for usu lily the st< i
are people of mod- rate mean*.”
Mr. Colyar, of the Rome furnace,
of the city, ami his opinion could
secured. It is understood,
that he dees not think southern
css will suffer. B
Th» Plow Factory.
A. R. Sullivan, Rome Piow
*3o not think the Wilson bill will hurt us
at all. I can not tell the exact eff-ict with
out more information, but local condi
tions are such that it won d take years of
the hardest kind of competition to in
fluence the trade to any great extent, and
by that time we should be prepared for
it. By local coudit ons I mean in refer
ence to our particular line. The same
plow that suits people eay within a radius
of forty milts of Rome would not suit
those near Atlanta, nor in South Carolina
Every section wants a particular kind,
and it requires a knowledge of the con di
tions to make popular sales. I am in
favor of low tariff, even it drives me out,
for where one line suffers many others
■will be benefited.”
The Stove Works.
“J. P. Bowie: “I don’t see how any
thing could make pig iron any cheaper
than it is. Seaports might be benefited
by this bill, but we will not bo injured I
don’t anticipate any greatercompetion in
our line.”
Cotton Factories and Clothing:.
Mr. Henry Harvey; “I cau’t think that
the new bill wilfburt us directly, espe
cially on our class of goods. Most of the
southern mills manufacture a heavy
quality, and ours especially so. Fortign
factories can not afford to import this stuff
because of the quantity of cotton in it
Cotton goods are sold within 5 cents of
the cost of the raw material, and in this
stuff it is the cost of the cotion and not
the work that counts. That is why they
can’t compete with us. Some eastern
mills may bo diiven from the making of a
finer class of goods into our line, and thus
indirectly hurt un. In the tine goods it
is the cost of maufacturing that counts,
and if the eastern mills can't meet the
cheap labor of Egnland they may enter
into competition with us on the coarse
goods,”
i W. M. Gammon: “I don’t think it
will affect business much one way or the
•ther. It will bo beneficial to the busi-
ness of the entire country. This section,
if affected at ail, will be for the better.
I'he tariff question has nothing to do
with the present business depression.
Clothing may sell 10 or 15 per ctnt
cheaper."
R G. Clark: “It is the best tariff bill
yet presented, and as good as can be ar
■ anger*. Prices on some goods will be
loweiod and some lines wRJ be hurt. You
can’t get up a general law of any kind
that doesn’t seem bard on some,”
Tannerl.es.
A. B. Connally: “The duty on the
kind of leather we make is lowered 15
per cent, toy the new bill, and we alread.i
feel the effect. Where b usually work 28
men the year round, I now have only a
dozen, and they are only at woik on im
provements. You see in England they p»y
rOout 6*l cents a day for a band we pay
$1.50 or more. I suppose the only way
we cou'd do would bo to improve ano
then cut wages, however, none of that
will be necessary, for che bill will never
pass, though it is very fair.”
He Doesn’t Dike It.
J. King: “The democratic platform
demands a tariff for a revenue, sufficient
to pty the expenses of the government,
economically administered.
“This is good democratic doctrine, but
it appears that the first act of the demo
cratic administration is to suggest a tariff
bill known as the “Wilson Bill,” which
if enacted would- fall, short of raisins
sufficient revenue to defray the expenses
of the government by some 100,000,000
“In order to make up this deficiency,
measures are suggested which, in my
opinion, affect the progress, prosperity
and welfare of the south. Every section,
every state, every community, every in
dividual are governed in their opinions
to the extent they are affected.
“The tariff is a personal matter. You
are for it, just to the extent itTowers the
price of articles you for use of
yourself and family. You are against it
if it admits articles which would paralyze
the industries of your section.
“The taxing of net incomes of all cor
porations would certainly work an in
jury to every individual who owns stock
in any corporalion, it matters not of what
cha acter.
“ The admission of coal and iron ore
free from duty would certainly bring
hardship to this section of the south.
“Itis a well known fact that the north
ern states furnish the standard of prices
for pig iron and all articles which are
made of iron,and to admit coal and ore free
of duty would enable manufacturers on
the caast in northern states to produce
pig iron at a price that would bring stag
nation to that branch of our industry.
"It appears to me that under the one
ration of the Wilson bill the possibilities
of building up iron manufaturing iudus
tries in this section would be a dead
letter.”
MARRIED LAST THURSDAY.
Two Popular Citizen* of Chullo .Joined In
Matrimony.
Married, on the 7ch inst., at the resi
dence of the bi ide’s mother, in Chulio
d'stric, Floyd county, by Rev. O. P.
Ritch, Dr. C D. Cuny&s to Miss Florence
D. Mathis. The bride is one of Chulio’s
popular young ladies;
adislocated
bruises.
He attempted to drive out of Ballew’s
stable yesterday morning, when be
struck a low doorway. He was sitting
on a leaning bale of cotton, and as the
te m kept going he was crushed beneath
tbe sill into unsciousness. He was car
ried at once to the Battey hospital where
Dr. McCall and Dr. Felton attended him.
For a wonder it was found that a dislo
cated shoulder and some painful bruises
were his only injuries.
-*■ Peculiarities In Massage.
Light friction of a part reduces sur
face temperature. In 10 experiments on
healthy adults, whose armpit tempera
ture on both sides was equal, and whose
free surface temperature on the sur
face of both forearms was before mas
sage 88 degrees F. or more, it was
found, on subjecting the left forearm to
gentle upward friction, that while the
temperature in both armpits and in the
untouched free surface of the opposite
limb remained constant, the tempera
ture of the left forearm fell in all cases
more than two degrees and in three
cases nearly four degrees.
After firm friction, rolling, squeezing
and kneading of the skin of the limb in
all cases, the free cutaneous tempera
ture rose to 05 degrees, but the armpit
temperature remained the samtwon both
sides, while in seven cases an interest
ing phenomenon was noticed on the op
posite side—viz, the right limb sensibly
perspired and the free surface tempera
ture of the untouched forearm fell to 84
degrees during the time that the firm
friction of the left limb was in progress,
i In regard to light friction it has been
impossible to detect any effect on the
patient’s sense of locality or on the tem
perature sense. After firm friction of a
part for five minutes comes a decided in
, crease of the sense of touch, and the
1 sense of locality has in most instances
been apparently improved.—New York
Ledger.
There was a let-up in the bear attack
on Atchison in Wall street yesterday.
THE WEEKLY TBlttUNtf. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1893
- HE IS DEAD.
Emmett Watson Died Sun
day Morning
A LITTLE AFTER MIDNIGHT.
A Most Estimable Young Man
Whose Death is Widly
Mourned.
John Emmett Watson died Sunday
moil, ng at 12:35. ,
And a wave of genuine and deep sorrow
will sweep over the en’’ sity today.
Gentle, generous and &.ad, Emmett
Watson had not an enemy in this section,
and all remeu ber his many good deeds
ind bemoan the loss of such a man.
For several days he had been quite ill.
Thursday a dangerous and difficult ope
ration was performed, made necessary
by his precarious condition. The opera
tion was successful, but complications set
in, and all Sunday his death was ex
pected. He was given the very bpst medi
cal attention, and among the half dozen
excellent physicians and surgeons who
attended him there was not one whose
heart was not in saving the young man’s
life.
Mr. Watson was not quitgjthirty years
old. He came Rock Hill,
South ago, and went
into the with Mr. J. T.
Crouch. They have been partners ever
since, and made one of the most success
ful and popular drug firms in the city.
Three years ago he married Miss Laura
Seay, eldest daughter of Capt. John J.
Seay. He le aves one child, a little girl
not yet a year old.
Quiet, unassuming, he made friends
withal), and all Rome joins in with the
family in sorrowing for him. The funeral
arrangements have not yet been decided
upon.
INDIAN RELICS UNEARTHED.
Arnone Them a Medal of the First Metho
dist Chapel In America.
Charles Z. Fritzinger, a German
farmer who resides in Benton county,
45 miles south of Sedalia, Mo., while
digging a drainage ditch on his farm
last month unearthed, at a distance of
three feet from the surface, a medal or
token of Wesley chapel and parsonage,
John street* New York, the first Meth
odist building in America. Mr. SHU
zinger took it to Sedalia to find out
something about it and ascertain its
value. The token is made of lead and
antimony, is 2 inches in diameter and
the thickness of a Bland dollar.
On the obverse side is an embossed
likeness of John Wesley, around which
are the inscriptions, * ‘ Founder of Meth
odism” and “The World Is My Par
ish.” On the reverse side is an em
bossed picture of Wesley chapel, show
ing the ancient place of worship and
the adjoining parsonage. The inscrip
tions are‘‘Wesley Chapel and Parson
age” and “Dedicated by Philip Em
bury, Oct. 30. 1788.” It is possible
that it was given by a missionary to an
Indian, for the spot where it was found
is where the Usages and Kickapoos had
their last great battle. In running the
ditch where the token was unearthed
found a number of ar-
;>lil- vilii wbiH,
nt ui-i.'t. A frirud
master was in the
dicament, so they decided to make the
government furnish enough coin with
which life could be made worth living..
They couldn’t tap the tills of the office,
because the receipts were too low, nei
ther could they steal stamps, because
they were allowed too few. It was final
ly decided that the money order system
was the best thing to tackle in order to
get funds, and accordingly the postmas
ter issued 31 orders for SIOO each to his
friend, payable at a neighboring office.
The friend had them cashed, and for a
few weeks both lived high.
Now the question arose how to cover
their tracks. The wits of the two crim
inals were put to work, and it was set
tled that they should buy the star route
in that section, subsidize the mail mes
senger and have a “hold up,” after
which the postmaster would be able to
say that the money in payment of the
orders was taken from the mailbag.
Tho programme was carried out. The
messenger was held up and came to
town telling of his loss, and the post
master swore thnt he had placed the
money for the payment of the orderp in
the mailbag.
The postofflee department became sus
picious and sent a special agent down
there, which resulted in the capture of
the postmaster and his accomplice. The
messenger was also locked up.—Wash
ington Star.
Doesn’t KnowTHls Own Mother.
George G. Hunter of Oakland has lost
his memory completely. He is alive
and well, but can recall nothing of his
past life. He does not remember his
wife or his mother. Though he has a
good education, be has forgotten how
to read or write. Young Hunter was
working on a locomotive in the railroad
roundhouse when an iron plug was
blown from a steam pipe and struck
him on the head, fracturing the skull.
—San Francisco Examiner.
Unti l WHi
OpportunityExtraonlinary®
Mwro.*Bw^ g -*rirr i rrTi iiiMiiwii n -iBJ.-im ■m ■ i inn 11 1 in or tt
tele: jXmjes stock.
Charles W. James, 37 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, failed in business. He had beefli
business but six months. Everything new, everything bright, and everything season!
able, and the stock fell to us under the hammer. We gave but little for it andnowl
ryTTTn MOST STUiPEMDOTjS AIJXTS j
In fine, ever given the people in this portion of Georgia are in store for our '
custom ersm Nome at q
Our old SteLixd —S 3 Broad
The Boylan & Fagan Stock. 1
These great dealers in clothing shoes and hats, 100 Whitehall Atlanta, j
succumbed to the hard times. Our cash bought the from
little cash goes a long way now.
.A. Tjittle
Bought this mammoth st ek ami if you want an arnde hfl ‘ K-'/
or k pair of Shoes —heavy < r line- come at once forth? grw
in this place w
We are in position t > sell goods iowe~, much lower, thaiw -
ness life, and if you do not supply your wants at a tremen hni!
will be your own fault. !
240 Pure Linen Towels, 30 Inches 15 inches wide-S to a
Fancy -mor?- aii Shiris
Dress goods that Were 35 C; ?it J Sg| at j-o-, W
22 cents.
Dre s goods at 40 cents
Dress goods at 50c wortn 85 c. B
Flannels, Blankets, and Qni Its—Prices Aho at Half. ~, J
to Touch Bottom and Show the Trading People the ProM
Meaning of Real Bargains. i
ol Bargains will Continue Io Salurday Night, Dec. ■
Begin oiii Annual Invsntory.
wi!l i>i o-u.-tomers, who
IKrst, alue.
worth from S7AJutb^3ooo on sale at 83.00 to 815.00
This Great Moving, Peerless BargajntTarat’
Clearance Sale Now Going on? ;
Remember this week will he Ilia Red Letter Week of our memorable Bargain Sale—Do not miss the
opportunity for Fine Goods at Half Values.
BASS BROTHERS & COMPANY. i
I CITATION.
GEORGIA—FIoyd County
To all whom it mav concern : J B. Tippin
administrator of R. V. Mitchell, deceased, has
.indue form applied to tbe undersigned for
' leavo to sell the lan di belonging to tbe estate of
said d-ceased.and said application will be heard
on the tint Monday in December next, Tine
Bth day of November, 1893. „.,, ra
JohnP. DAVIS
11-8-4 W „ Ordinary. |
| Citation For Administration.
Notice is hereby given that on the first Mon
day in December next I shall apt oint as Ad
miniatrator on the estate of J. A. Stansbuery,
deceased, late of Floyd county, Georgia. C. W.
Underwood, the County Administrator, or some
other fit and proper person. This Nov. 8, 18j3.
Notice of Local Legislation.
VOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN OF THE IN
1’ tention to apply to the pre-ent session of the
Legislature of the State of Georgia for the pas
sage of a bill to b9entitled: “Al. Act to ami nd
tbe charter of tbe city of Rome so as to make
J the councilmen elected for eaid city, eligible for
a succeeding term, and lor other purposes."
11-4
• Leave Your Orders for •
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j O’NEILL M’F’C COMPANY, j
: Telephone 76.
Citation.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
To a l l whom It wav concern: Geo. J- Briant,
admiuietratiator of Geo. W. Harris, deceased,
has in cue form applied t the undersigned for
leave to sell ttie lands belonging t > the rotate of
► aid deceased, and said application will be
on the first Monday in December next.
This Hie ilth day of November, 18.(3
td JOHN F. DAVIS, Ordinary.
SCHEDULE
1 White Star Lin Co.(
Steamers Clifford B >
Boats leave Rome forG I'lsib n and
termediate lancings Tuesdays
I Fridays 8;30 a.Tfi. I
For Greensport and Locke 1, 2 and 3,
Fridays 8:30 a.m. ,
RETURNING. ,
< Arrive Romo! hursdays «ndSundays..“ :00 p.m
; Application For letters of Dis
mission.
GEORGIA, Flo vd County.
Whereas W. H Edmundson, Administrator of
the eH'atc of KHz i 11. Beeves. represents to the
court in bis pen ion duly filed that he has lu'ly
aduiinibteied El zi 11. Reeves’ estate. This in
to cite ail persons concerned. kindsed and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they cm. vh* said
should not be discharged from
his administration and receive letters of dis
mission on the first Monday in February 1894.
This November 6,1893. JOHN P. DAVIS,
oaw9od Ordinary.
(EVANSVILLE ROUTE,
Ths favorite line to
CHICAGO 1
ail Points n the Nortli an®
i line* baa two >legant trahlW
daily btWwen Atlanta and Chicago. J
No »i No
Lv Atlanta, W&A. . ... 10 30 am 820 pm
Lv I'hattanooga. NC&StL. 3>o pm 107 am
iLv Nashville, LAN...; 720 pm 820 am
Lv Evansville, E4CH 120 am 108 P m
ILv Terre Haute. CS El 435 am 427 pm
iAr Chicago C& K1... 947 am 940 pm
Train N > 8 “Chicago and Atlanta Limited"
a solid vi etibu’ed train with Pullman sleeperij
and day couches. A diningcar is attatched Wj
the train at Danville, enabling the pasfengera|
to get their br akfvst en route. This train ais«
has through sleepers from .Jacks mville,
anil Mem his. Tenn ,to Chicago. •
Train No 8, ‘-Wclid's Fnir Special, rtM
solid between Atlanta and Chicago
equipped with elegant Pullman Pai lor lUM
cars . A.G. PALME
8. I. ROGERS. G. P. A. E. «T.HW .- -i
Sou. Pass. Agt.
Chattanooga, Tenn.