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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 • : —and— : { o o x> ] ; —WITH • 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.