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VOL IX LANHAM & SONS Atg Alrriost t Giving Goods flrWayi Look at These Prices: White Bed Blankets, each 20 c Fur Lined Capes as low as 50 c Two Toned "ilk, stylish for Waists or Trimmings,. .. 15 c T<-!: Balls I tost lowing Thread for. ... 5 c Good Hickory Shirting 4fc i *— _ . Good Yard W ide So.i Island 4 c Good Ginghams 3fc G od Indigo Calico 3-^c Mali: s Tick lug 5 c 1 Feather Ticking 10 c ! All Wool Flannel as low as 9 c i Paper Patterns, sill kinds and sizes . 10 c , Clothing, a real nice suit for a man $2.50 Worsted double width, nice 10 c Canton Flannel 4 c Good Colton Chocks 3|c l’luttv Cepes trimmed with Velvet Braid and Buttons ..SI.OO i I ' ' 1 ■ ■■ 1,1 | Shoes! Shoes! We have an immense stock of New Shoes, and will , sell for less money than any other house in the coun~ 1 try. ® Clothing, All Hinds! * Wcsjiave as Rig Stock of Clothing as a regular clothing store and can and will sell Clothing cheaper than any house in Rome. This is no boast but a fact. Come in and see our line of Clothing and if you don’t think it cheap don’t buy. i -3=— tg MILLINERY! MILLINERY! . The finest stock of New Hillinery ever brought to Rome. Everything new and at prices no other house will name. We always knew the Ladies had to pay too much for their Hilts, and therefore we decided to save them some money, and we do it too. We sell Fine and Stylish Hats for less money than any House in Georgia. M llUTls! Our new Fall Stock is the largest and is as fine as was ever shown in any house in Rome. Not an old style in the house, and all the latest Novelties at prices that will please any one wanting to save money. Don’t buy your Dress till you see our new goods. A beautiful all wool Serge Imported to sell at 40c. Our price only 21c. o Gome and see the silk we are selling at 15c. Nothing like it in Rome. „ , . Who would be without a Silk Waist when theij can get one at isg a ijard. We have bij far the largest stock ot New Goods ever brought to Rome and will sell cheaqer than anu one in Rome. All we ask is a trial. „ r .„ We have the finest tine ot Gages, Silk Dress Goods and Millinery to be found anywhere and we know we will please gou. o We will be pleased to show goods whether vou buv or not. . * * IPiHtmiW # SONS. < Wholesale and Retail. 3*4 to 326 Fifth Ave., ROME, GA., THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 18, 1896 MAY BE A SENSATION. Judge Lumpkins’ Decision Will Revolutionize Loans. The following decision handed down by Judge Lumpkin, of the supreme bench of Georgia, will probably have the effect to place a great deal of litigation in the courts in the immediate future. The language on its face and its construction will have a tendency to revolutionize the matter of loans between loan companies and bor rowers who have paid legal rates of interest and fees to an agent for its negotiation. Here it is: Pottle vs. Lowe et al. Before Judge Hart. Jones supe rior court. Lumpkin, J. —1. A loan of money made in consideration jf the max imum legal rate of interest and one-half of the commissions charged by a third person for ne gotiating the loan, is usurious; and, under such circumstances, it is immaterial whether the third person is the agent of the° lender or of the borrower, or of both. 2. A deed executed by a borrow er under section 1969 et seq. of the code, to secure a debt infected with usury, and purporting not only to convey title to the lender, but also to confer upon the latter a power of sale, is absolute void, and therefore ineffectual to pass title or to create a valid power of sale. “3. The grantee in such a deed cannot, either as holder of the le gal title or as hi 3 attorney in fact, make a valid conveyance, even to an innocent purchaser without notice of the usury. 4. Uuder the facts disclosed by tho recoru the verdict for the plaintiffs was manifestly contrary to law. Judgment revorsed. Hardeman, Davis & Tumor and Richard Johnson, for plaintiff is error. Dessau, Bartlett & Ellis, R. V. Hardemau and Robert Hodges contra. A number of Rome’s leadiug lawyers were interviewed on the subject and so grave is the import and so far reaching is the probable result that they would not give any expressions for publication. The apparent effect will be to cause writs of ejectment to be issued in case original borrowers desire to plead usury. It will in all probability cause much trouble throughout Georgia, as thousands of farms have been sold under deeds covered by this decision, which deeds are no more and no less than mortgages. It may also have the effect to go into every county in the Union, as these loan companies have agents everywhere. To illustrate: If A wants one thousand dollars from the loan company he g es to B, their agent. B says yes I can get you the money at 8 per cent but for the trouble of negotiating the matter I charge you 10 per cent, or one hundred dollars. A, the borrower, pay’s B the 10 per cent aud gets nine hundred dollars and gives a deed for one thousand dollars at 8 per cent interest, and KbH I BLOOD BALM. ! SA household remedy for all Blood and 2 Skin diseases. Cures without •.’ail, Srrof- ft nlm,llrers. Rheumatism. Catarrh. Salt Rheum X and every form of Blood Disease from the K simplest pimple to the foulest Ulcer. Fifty* years' use with unvarying success, dem- m onstrates its paramount healing, purify- ■ I ing and buliding up virtues. One bottle K has more curative virtue than a dozen of ■ i any other kind. It builds up the health ■ and strength from the first dose. w t&-JTKWTE for Book of lfo»- | aerrul Cures, sent free on applt- | NWS. If not kept by your local druggist, send 5 (LOO for a large bottle, or (5.00 for six bot- £ ties, and medicine will be sent, freight S paid, by g I BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ba. f through strokes ot misfortune, bad management, etc, he can’t pay back the Loan company sells his property to an innocent purchaser to another and so on. Now under the above decision A, or tl e origi nal borrower, can plead usury and got back his property. At any rate this is the appearance of the decision. The outcome will be watched with much interest. There have been, probably, from twenty to fif ty such sales made here in Floyd county and thousands throughout the state and tens of thousands all over the Union. It may now, un less a review is taken by the Geor gia supreme court, go to the United States supreme court for final decision.—Rome Tribune. The Companion Calendar. It is said that the expense of making the Companion Art Calen dar for 1897 was so great that had it been published in the usual quantity it could not be sold for less than one dollar. Four beau tiful female figures are reproduced on four folding pages. Each figure is lithographed in twelve colors ) being a true reproduction of the original water-color painting which w r as selected because of its excel lence of design and charm of color and tone . The size of each of the four folding pages is 10| by 6 inches. It is by far the best piece of col or work the Companion has ever offered. Both as a calendar and as a gem of the lithographer’s art, it is so attractive that it becomes a valuable addition to the mantel or centre-table of any room. It is given free to all new subscribers sending $1.75 to the Companion for the year 1897, who receive also the paper free from the time the subscription is received till Janu ary 1, 1897. Celebrating in 1897 its seventy first birthday, the Companion of fers its readers many exceptionally brilliant features. Fully two hun dred of the most famous men and women of both continents have contributed to the next year’s vol ume of the paper. For free Illus trated Prospectus address, The Youth’s Companion, 205 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. Condensed Testimony. Chas. B, Hood, broker and man ufacturer’s agent, Columbus, Ohio, certifies that Dr. King’s New Dis covery has no equal as a Cough remedy. J. D. Brown Prop St. James hotel, Ft. Wayne, Ind., tes tifies that he was cured of a cough of two years standing, caused by lagrippe, by Dr. King’s New Dis covery. B. F. Merrill, Baldwins vi le, Mass., says he has used and recommended it and never knew it to fail and would rather have it than any doctor, because it al ways cures. Mrs, Hemming, 222 E. 25th St., Chicago always keeps it at hand and has no fear of croup because it instantly relieves. Free Trial Bottles at H. H. Arrington’s Drug Store. Mrs. Mattie Hughes, a Bilverite, ran against her husband, Republi can, for the senate in Utah and de feated him. She will sit in the senate and make laws, while he 1 will have to stay at home and nurse the children. Whither are wo drifting? Those counties in Georgia which i**ve majorities for McKinley are Calhoun, Camden, Chattahoochee, Chiy, Clayton, Coffee, Columbia, Douglas, Echols, Fannin, Forsyth, Greene, Haralson, Henry, Jefferson Laurens, Liberty, Lincoln, Lowndes Lumpkin, Marion, McDuffie, Mcln tosh. Moutg-msry, Morgan, Ocon ee, Paa ding, Pickens, Polk, Quit man, Rockdale, Schley, Screven, Taliaferro, Tatrsail, Taylor, Towns, and Warren. These counties have heretofore been mostly Populist. Ripaus Tabules cure indigestion. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t art Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE NEW CURE FOP, MULES. Amusing Incident Arising From tne Grasshopper Remedy. “I was riding along a mountain road in eastern Kentucky a few weeks ago,” remarked a travelling salesman to a Washington Star reporter, “when I saw a mule run ning toward me with a single-tree dangling at his heels. With great difficulty I succeeded in turning out of his way aud he continued to go down the mountain at a lively pace. “About a mile further on I saw two front wheels of a spring wagon and a short distance away the oth er wheels and the wagon box. I looked around to see if the driver had been hurt but, finding no one drove on. “In a few minutes I met a man walking down the road rather has tily. ‘Stranger,’ he queried, ‘did yo’ see a mewl down thar?” “Yes.” “Did he hev a rag over ’is ear?” “I didn’t see any.” “Waal, its all right. I reckon ’e’ll stop when he gots llustered out, an’ I reckon ’e’s cured.” “What is he cured of, I asked. “Balkin’. Yo’ see, I had heerd that a grasshopper put in tli’ year o’ boss or mewl ’ed cure ’im from balkin’, so I tied a rag over th’ critter’s year so it couldn’t git out cotched a grasshopper, put ’im in, an’ stranger, its th’ bes’ remedy I ever seed. Th’ mewl didn’t giv me time to git in the wagon. I never did see a mewl so sprightly. I reckon th’ hopper’s got out now, an’ I’ll go on an’ cotch th’ mewl.” Blood is life and upon the purity and vitality of the blood depends the health of the whole system. Experience proves Hood’s Sarsap arilla to be the best blood purifier. Hcod’s Pills act easily and promptly on the liver and bowels. Cure sick headache. Here is the last saying of the national bird, as translated by Case and Comment: lam the American Eagle, and my wings llap together; likewise I roost high and I eat my bananas raw. Rome may sit on her seven hills and howl, but she cannot sit on me; may she put that in her pipe and smoke it. lam mostly a bird of peace, but I have got talons which reach from the storm beaten shores of the Atlantic to the golden shoreß of the placid Pacific, and I use the Rocky mountains to sharpen them on; and when I scratch gravel, mind your eyes, aud every time I cackle I have laid an egg. And 1 point with pride to the eggs I have laid for the last hundred years or so; lam the original hen bird of the Goddess of Liberty, the only n-allinaceous “E Pluribus Uuum” O on record. lam an eagle from Eaglesville, with a scream on me that makes thunder sound like i dropping cotton on a still morn ing; and my present address is Hail Columbia, United States of America. A Cruel Remark. He—Aw, yaas, just weturned to : town aftah a mouth in the country, you know. sport. Out in the fawmyard one day. Old cow wanted to lick me. Ha! ha! ha! She —Is it not wonderful how strong the maternal instinct is in [ tbe lower animals?” —Up to Date Georgia Monuments. It is expected that contracts will soon be completed for the erection of the Georgia monument at Chick amauga. The design is elaborate, beautiful and imposing. The base will be about thirty feet and the height about sixty-five feet. It will be the most costly monument on the park, the total expense reaching $20,000. It will proba bly be erected on the lines of Bate’s and Benning’s brigades on the open field east of the Poe house and just far enough from the LaFayette road to properly show its propor tions. Both of these brigades con tained Georgia troops, Benning’s being all Georgians, and their bat tle lines intersect on the Poe field. The New York monument now being put up at Orchard Knob is one of the most artistic yet sent to the field by any state. It is of granite and bronze. The height is forty-seven feet and the cost about $14,000. Now York is preparing a monu ment of similar dimension for a site near the Craven house. A handle factory and general wood working plant will be remov ed from New York state to Tren ton within the next few weeks, probably, even now the machinery is being loaded upon the cars. That Trenton has secured this plant is due to the efforts of Pro fessor Welch, who has prepared and had printed a pamphlet on the resources of Dade county. In the year 1834 Captain A. S. Allen, then a small boy on his father’s farm near Zebulon, Ga., stuck a mulberry sprout in the ground. At that time the sprout was not larger than a lead pencil and had been used by the boy as an ox goad. Today it is a tree al most nineteen feet in circumfer ence at a distance of two feet from the ground, and is said to be the largest mulberry tree in Georgia. To Late Candidates. Quite a number of those who an nounced in the News as candidates for office have failed so far to settle for the same. Our terms for these an nouncements are strictly cash, and we must insist that these accounts be set tled at once. We wall publish a list soon of all who have paid, and we hope we won’t have to omit any names from the list. Please attend to this at once. We need the money and the terms are cash. /a E3SSESS £■, mirV£tZ H Sdm isA Peek’s IftV -SiEUS Tt'rsliAß SiS a SIiSKISaS. v *fcispsraboard Coin fortabfo. oaececsfcil where all fait*. Ill*, book* SAddreee F. BISCOX* C 63 Xtzfe 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. “Can’t do without them” R. P. Smith, Chilesburg, Va. writes I don’t know how I could do without them. I have had Liver disease for over twenty years. Am now entirely cured. Tutt’s Liver Pills No -17