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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! NshE e HI ■ ■ M O I rn| I Wl H ■ t? -- U .reai Y.... •’i ' ; ai &V £3 Eg w -iQoiir WWIa | i lIL ■i! ■ J IJ| ■ H I u ~ ,s " ac i ? W3 V-igy-yf agg g t I k A & ml M IIPISI 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. 7 > 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. !'Blood aid'skTn' Always RRR Cured. 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