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HUNDREDS BUTCHERED,
Startling Charges Against Wey
ler by Passengers From
Havana.
Key West. Fla., Nov. 25. —Pas-
sengers from Havana report that
Gen. Weyler returned to Hivana
yesterday, and that his entrance
was made without demonstration
on the part of the populace, but
was cold and bitter. Gen. Weyler
reports that he was unable to find
Maceo.
Weyl-r’s troops were terrorized
at his cruelty and barbarity in or
near the Rubl mountains. He
killed and butchered 800 peaceful
people, women and children in- :
eluded.
Hundreds of families concen-1
trated in the towns in the province
of I’inar del Rio have died of fever
and misery.
Private cablegrams to Cuban
leaders from Havana state that
Gomez is now moving Havanaward
and it is rumored that he and
Maceo will soon make a concerted
attack on Havana. 1 his increases
tiie general alarm and distrust in
the city, and Weyler’s palace is be
e ig<d with throngs after i iforma
ti >n, of which very little is vouch
safed the public. The governor
go neral contents himself with gen
end hints and statements of what
ho will do after Christmas
A rumor prevails atHavana this
evening that some of Maceo’s
forces h <ve met a p rt ion of \\ oy
ler’s army at Maryland; that the
Spanish less is heavy. Il c-nnot
bo confirmed tonight. Sounds of
sharp firing of dynamiting wen
heard this evening eastward of the
city, supposedly caused by guer
rilla warfare.
Education and Suffrage.
The adoption, in any state, of an
educational qualification for voters
puts the industry of ballot fraud
in due course of extinction. It
has wiped that crime out m Massa
chusetts, without i.bbroviating, to
an unjust extuit the vote ot the
state. It has destroyed the crime
in Mississippi, given the state pure
and peaceful elections, that in tim<
will become truly general elections
at which practically all men of vo
ting ago will deposit their ballots.
We would not expect a constitu
tional reform of this kind to bring
the millenium in Tennessee; we
would expect it to, at once, remove
occasion (excuse) for frauds of
various kinds.
Resides being a preventive of
fraud and a prime means of pun
ishing fraud, a properly guarded
educational test is both just and
g xod policy. We seriously question
whether a man ought to be allowed
to vote for men to make laws
which laws the voter can neither
read, nor understand them when
read to him. We would hesitate
about permitting an illiterate to
vote because he would be most lia
ble to be deceived and defrauded
in the matter, by bad men. We
doubt not that denial of the fran
chise to illiterates, in several of
the states, has been a powerful
cause for eradicating illiteracy in
those states.
It is in the states that have long
barred illiterates, paupers and all
classes of criminals from the bal
lot box, that we find the best laws,
and see them most vigorously en
forced.
And while it would not prove a
panacea for all ills of state, the
good it must inevitably do, if per
severingly continued, would be in
calculable.
We must, soon or late, in a great
and populous and rich and grow
ing republic, like this one, base
the suffrage on knowledge and vir
tue, or we will make a failure at
last, of our now hopeful experi
ment with elective and limited de
ni oc racy. —T i m es.
The second trial of Taylor Delk,
charged with the murder of the
sheriff of Pike county, has been set
for the first Monday in December.
The case against Tom Delk, now
under sentence of death for the
same crime, will, in all probability
lie taken to the United States su
preme court.
Sensation in Rome!
Immense Stock of Goods at Cost!
Eighty Thousand Dollars Wortli of High Grade Dry
Goods, Millinery, Notions,Clothing, Hats, Shoes, etc, etc,
in Rome at Cost! YVe throw our Great Stock of Goods
on this market, and, to prepare for a change in the busi
ness, We Are Going to Sell it. You can buy anything
in this House from top to bottom, from front to rear—
any article, every piece, rare el, item or measure At
What It Cost Us!
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When are you coming to Rome? Do not put it off too long want to buy anything. The Goods
offered you at Prime Cost, are first=class in every particular, new and up=to=date merchandise and that
you can buy them as offered is
AN OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME.
Come’to see us. We’ll do just what we advertise. You can get anything in this immense stock at
What It Cost Us. Come at once and save big money on your purchases.
Bass Bros., & Company.
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J. R. Lawrence, the young Cedar
Bluff. Ala., merchant, who was
charg'd with obtaining goods;'
from A. W. Tedcastle & Co , under
fals» pretenses, has returned to '
Rome under the care of Sheriff'
McConnell and has been given a
preliminary hearing, which re- j
suit'd in his being hound over to, 1
the superior court under a bond of
S2OO.
The stables, buggy house, horse 1
and l uggy belonging to T. J.
War . of Macon were burned Sat
urday morning.
Several of the insurance compa
nies which had risks on the life of
T. J. Delbridge, of Atlanta, have
decided to fight the claims and
have refused to pay the amount of
the policies to the dead man’s
family.
William McKinley will bo the
twenty-fifth president of the
United States. On the 26th of
February, six days before his in
auguration, he will be fifty-two
years of age, the same age that
Abraham Lincoln was when inau
gurated in 1801.
C. W. Brantley, of Forsyth, edi-i
tor of the Monroe Advertiser, and ]
Mrs. S. F. Fraser, of Savannah;]
were married recently.
Representative Webb, of Chero
kee, has sued a street car company
. in Atlanta for SIO,OOO for putting 1
him off of a car. The conductor;
claimed lie had not paid his fare, !
• and put him off very roughly.
Mr Webb claims he had paid his
fare. Mr. Webb is a Christian
gentleman and a prominent mem
: ber of the legislature.
Tom Watson's people’s party pa
per will in the near future be pub
lished at Augusta, and not in At
lanta, as at present.
Caleb Jacl s m, a white man, is
in jail at Rome, charged with forg
ing the name of Solomon Turner,
one of his m • ro tenants.
Mark Hubbtrb, of Montgomery,
is the inventor of a new explosive,
which in power is three times as
great as gun-cotton, but is abso
lutely harmless except under cer
tain conditions.
TWO TEXAS COLONELS,
They Have a Slight Misunder
standing on the Streets of
New York.
New York Journal.
“Yes, sah, that’s me sah, Percy
Hardy, Kernul Percy Hardy when
’m at home in Texas, sah. And
this pusson yeh is Kunnel Jim
Scott, also of Texas, sah, by Shel
byville, Texas —down wheh the
ong-horned cattle come from. sah.
We ail had jes’s >l’ ouah steersan’
was seein’ what so’tagh place you
all had yeh.’ ’
Thus spoke a tall, dignified look
ing man in a slouch hat and a
’rince Albert coat, when the po
iceman on the bridge of the Cen
ter street court called the names
of ‘ James Scott and Percy Hardy”
yesterday morning. The man in
troduced as Col. Jim Scott was as
short and round as his companion
was tall and lank.
“Well, Col. Hardy and Col. Scott
yon are both charged by the officer
of being drunk and fighting in the
Bowery at a late hour last night,”
said Magistrate Simms. “What
have you to say to the charge?”
“Yo honah,” said Col. Hardy, as
he straightened up to his
height, “my friend, Kunnel Scott,
was cert’nly a little the w rso for
the lickah he had in him, but I
sh- uld have keered for him like a
brother, sah, an’seen that he didn't
get into no trouble whatevah, sah.
I’he kunnel an’ myself had left
ouah guns at the hotel, sah, an’ it
is a self-evident fact that we
wouldn’t have done no fightin’ to
speak of, sah, no mattah what this
yeah police officah says.”
“The big fellow was hammering
the little one when I arrested
them,” said Detective Coyle, of
the Elizabeth street station, “and
the little one said be would lodge
a complaint against him.”
“An’ I’m prepared todososMi!”
sdd Col. Scott, speaking for the
first time. “That man is mah
friend, your honah, an’ I come up
yeh from Texas along with him.
But I want to say right heh, sah,
that Kunnel Percy Hardj
a persecutin’ me foh years,
“Persecuting you for twenty
years?” queried the court gently.
“Yes, sah, for all of that time,
sah. We have always been friends
but he has always bothahed me,
sah, one way an’ anothah.”
“In what w’ay?” asked the mag
istrate, while Col. Hardy stared at
Col. Scott in open-mouthed aston
ishment.
“In vayous ways, sah. Onetime
he got up a lynchin’ down in Tex
as an’ he nevah said nothin’ about
it to me, sah, his best fren, till it
was all over. He assaulted me in
the streets of Galveston one night,
right aftah Govnah Culberson’s e
lection, two years ago, an’ nex’ he
assaulted me again, sah, yeh in a
strange city, jes’ when we was all
takin’ a drink ovah the good news
that Texas was still democratic.”
“I had to him, yo’ honah,” put
in Col. Haidy. “He was
confounded ass of himse’f an’ d s
gracin’ouah common state; but
about that lynchin’, sah, it wasn’t
; my lynchin’, an’ I did start a boy
Ron a mule aftah him as soon as it
looked as if the lynchin’ was corn
in’ off.”
“Three dollars for assault,” said
the magistrate, “the lynching was
outside of the court’s jurisdiction.”
The two colonels left the court
room arm in arm after Col. Scott
had transacted the formal business
attending the liquidation of Col.
Hardy’s fine.
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