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VOjL )X CJZEZIRzISTIMZJLS .■riaafaga AT T: LANHAM | SONS We arc Going to Have the Lar= gest and Most Varied Stock of Christmas and Holiday Goods in Rome, and if you want to make a PRESENT our Store will be the place to buy it. Our buyer has just returned from Now York where he bought the Largest line of all New Goods ever brought to Rome. Our prices are the lowest. TOYS, DOLLS, GAMES, PICTURE BOOKS, FINE VASES, FANCY CHINA, and a thousand other things suitable for Presents will be sold by us for Less money than other merchants. Our Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Shoes, Giothing, etc., "TsTJaing sold for Less money than by other merchants! 0 Our Millinery Department is oortainln ths bast, in Romo. Wo sell flats, Gaqes, etG.. real GHeap, and tliey are oi tire finest and most Stylish in Georgia. o LOOK /YT THESE PRICES! Fur Trimmed Capes as low as 50 c Infants Plush Hoods or Capes only 5 c Infants and Childrens Knit Sacks only 10 c All Wool Flannel Per Yard B|c Cotton “ “ ‘‘ 3|c Cotton Checks, Real Good Bic Bed Blankets, each, only 20 c Lace Curtains per pair 35 c Towels, each 2|c Pretty Double Width Worsted ...... . . 10 c “ “ “ Cashmere Worsted only. . . 10 c Ladies Heavy Button Shoes , 75 c A large lot of Drummer's Sample Shoes. Come while these goods last. They are cheap. EVERYTHING AS ADVERTISED! Come to see us we can sell you all you want and by getting everything at Our Store Save Money and trouble. If you want a Christmas Present or any= thing else come to our Seven Stores and you will cer= tainly be pleased. you are going to Marry come to us for your Dress, Hat, Suit, Cape, Stove or Sew in g Machine. We sell the celebrated New Home Machine. Case of Finest Quarter Sawed Oak, and of very latest style at s2s,others ask $45. U/YNHftM * SONS. 'Wholesale and Retail. 314 to 326 Fifth Ave., ROME, GA. * •? THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 16, 1396. GEORGIANS BIG DEFICIT, eady $300,000 Behind and Heavy Appropriations Ahead. Atlanta, Dec. 9.—As the ap propriation bill stands, the state treasury will be embarrassed next year. There is an accumulated deficit of $300,000 caused by a sys tem of kiting; that is, by antici pating the revenue. This deficit is the accumulation of several years, and is due to special appropria tions, which have made without making corres] gliding lev ies of tax to raise the money. The payments have been made by the treasurer by borrowing from the preceding year’s revenue reserved for the last quarter, and repaying when the levy is collected. If all the increased appropria tions were made available from the beginning of 1897, there would be a deficit of about $950,000. To minimize this evil it is proposed to make the added $400,000 for schools available not until the third quarter of 1897, and the third quarter’s pay of teachers is due Jan. 1, 1898, when tho rev enue for 1897 will be in. This will reduce the apparent deficit by $300,000. It will leave the treas ury $680,000 behind. When kiting to this extent is attempted the treasury will be seriously embar rassed. The $300,000 deficit al ready on hand delayed the pay ment of tho third quarter’s school fund from Oct. 1 until Dec. 1. A member of the finance com mittee said this morning that the appropriations would probably bo cut $250,000 by the house. This would reduce tho rate of taxation from 6.39 mills, the rate made nec essary by the bill as reported, to 5.76 mills. There is a whole volume of wis dom in the following short para from the Marietta Journal: The man who studies a single subject until he loses sight of ev erything else is always in danger of parting with his judgment. When he does that, when he is en tirely wrapped in a single idea, he almsotinevitably developos what unspecialized people call cranki ness . f $ J 1 Cramps, 11 Croup, | * • I I Coughs, I ® $ 'WIC, ll Tooth= | A J I Colds, 11 ache, | | Diarrhoea, v $ Dysentery, “ © and an g owe | Complaints. f ® A Sure, Safe, Quick Cure for ® A these troubles is fflintGllefc 3 It is the trusted friend of the o £ Mechanic, Farmer, Planter, e Sailor, and in fact all classes. 0 Used internally or externally. * Beware of imitations. Take ? J none but the genuine “ Perry J Davis.” Sold everywhere. S 25c. and sOc. bottles. ? n<>® 00 <<■» BLOOD BALM.f A household remedy for all Blood and M Skin diseases. Cures without fail. Scrof- St ula,fleers. Rheumatism. Catarrh. Salt Rheum ia and every form of Blood Disease from the » I simplest pimple to the foulest Ulcer Fifty M I years’ use with unvarying success, dem- pe I onstrates its paramount healing, purify- 5 ' I ing and building up virtues. One bottle g I has more curative virtue than a dozen '1 * I any other kind. It builds up the health * I and strength from the first dose. S’ for Book of Won- 9, derful Cures, sent free on appll- A cation. 5 If not kept by your local druggist, send ■ I ?LOO for a large bottle, or 55.00 for six bot- 1 I ties, ana medicine will be sent, freight paid, by BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, 6a. Cigarette Legislation. Speaking of the recent attempt ; at passing an anti-cigarette law in Alabama, the Atlanta Constitution says: We say hero that we sympatize \ heartily with the ostensible object | of anti-cigarette legislation, which is to prevent young men and boys from forming a useless habit, but we do not at all agree with the : spirit of such legislation. The folly of it has not only been de monstrated time and again, but the essence of it is wrong. It is as if all the fathers in the state de sired to place the control of their sons in the courts. Reduce the matter to an individual case, and the folly of it becomes apparent. Every effort that has ever been made to make tho law take the place of family training and dis cipline is bound to boa failure, for the reason that the enforce ment of any statute depends on the approval, the consent and the sympathy of tho community on which it is intended to operate. Local option owes all its success to the fact that it represents the consent of tho voters, and gives the families of a community an oppor tunity to strengthen their own rules and regulations by adopting prohibition, if they choose to do so. Let us hope that we have heard the last of tho anti-cigarette bill, and other such foolish legislation in Alabama. The Ideal Paneca. James L. Francis, Aiderman, Chicago, says: “I regard Dr. King’s Now Discovery as an ideal Panacea for Coughs, Colds and Lung Complaints, having used it in my family for tho last five years, to the exclusion of physi cian’s prescriptions or other prep arations.” Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk, lo wa, writes: “I have been a minis ter of the Methodist Episcopal church for 50 years or more, ard have never found anything so ben eficial that gave me such speedy relief as Dr. King’s New Discov ery.” Try this Ideal Cough Rem edy now. Trial Bottles free at 11. 11. Arrington’s drug store. Two tramps in a neighboring town hit upon a novel plan to get some whiskey. They went into a saloon with a gallon jug and had it filled with liquor and offered a dollar in payment. Os course, the bartender refused to accept the money and emptied the liquor back into the barrel and the tramps took the jug and departed. Later they were seen to break the jug over a stone and squeeze out over a pint of liquor from the sponges which had been placed inside. — Ex. TENACIOUS GRIPON LIFE. A Georgian With 37 Bullet Holes and Eight Stabs in His Body. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 10. —One of the most remarkable cases on record in the medical annals of Georgia is reported from Augusta. John Buzzard was shot and stabbed by a man named Hender son and bis sons at Saluda, Nov. 28. He had thirty seven bullet holes in his body, had received eight knife stabs and his skull was fractured from blows indicted by rocks. He was reported dead, and great was the surprise when he shove 1 signs of life. More rem.uk.ible still, Buzzard’s condition began to improve and his physicians begin to entertain hopes of his recovery. Monday morning the wuun lc 1 m in seemed to be well ou the road to recov ery and called for break ast, which li - ate with hearty enjoynr.nl. By ilii time it was confidently. believed th it lie would certain I }’ survive his m uiy wounds, but hi~. night l.e become sui deuly wore and die!.. Gov. Atkinso i has pardoned Will Groves, of Henry county, from the penitentiary. Groves was sent up in October, 1895, to serve eight years. He was con vie ed of assault with intent to murder. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Lat est U. S. Gov’t Report PnVAI Baking lx®' S& Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE BOTTOM DROPPED OUT. An Entrance to the Under World Discovered Near Rome. Rosie, Ga., Dec., 9.—At Rock mart, twenty miles south of here, there is great excitement and resi dents of that section are living in mortal dread of an earthquake Three weeks ago in a field near town was a slight depression, some two feet lower than the surround ing country, on which grew a tree Recently a man named Drummond’ who lives near the spot, noticed i that the tree had disappeared, and investigation revealed the fact that a cave-in had taken place and the top of the tree was below the level of the surrounding country. A short time afterwards there was a loud rumbling noise, followed by several severe shocks, and it was found that the earth in the hole had sunk to a depth of seventy-two feet, and that a rushing torrent of clear water was at tho bottom. From time to time the earth a round the edges of the continues to fall in, until today the diame ter of the hole, which is almost circular, is sixty-eight feet. The rumb ings continue and occasion ally vapor rises from the abyss, the waler being much colder than the surrounding atmosphere. The effect of the vapor cloud is to give tt e hole the appearance of the cra ter of a volcano, and those who are superstitious are living in ter ror. It is only a “cave-in,” which occurs frequently in limestone countries, and no further damage is anticipated. Speaking of the woful neglect of the graves of dead Confederate sol diers, in comparison with money lavishly expended on the Federal cemeteries, Joe Johnston in the At lanta Journal, says: Why should the flag wave on the crest of one hill and not on the other? Why do bright flowers bloom around the tombs of those and not around the graves of these? Why should fragrance be wafted on the breezes that blow through the trees on the hill while malodor in flung out by the same fair wind when it reaches the other spot? Why, in the name of all the brave that ever died and all the wars ev er waged for country’s sake, should the graves of Confederate soldiers, dug in the same soil that gave them birth, side by side with the men who shot them down in bat tle, lying dead under the shadow of their own hearthstones, why, veterans and sons of veterans, why all sons and all daughters, why do briers grow where roses’ blooms should Mow? Legislative Notes. The General Assembly, in com mittees of the whole, has agreed to appropriate to tho Lunatic asylum ;’<>r tho yt’ar 1897 the sum of $270,- M.h), and ;’ur tin- v.:ar I S 'JS $280.• 000. The State University gets only the small sum of SB,OOO. Tiio Ti-ehiui'.'gical sc!i-'ol at At , hint a ii given $20,000. McCooks possum bill seems to have b ■ Io \ i : the scramble. Those blame furriners who un dertake to step on Uncle Sam’s coat tail because the big battle ship, Texas, sunk in calm waters, will make a mistake. The Texas was a bad misfit, but the others are not. VENEZUELA ACCEPTS. She Agrees to the Arbitration of the Long-Standing Bound ary Dispute. Washington, Dec. 17.—Secreta ry Olney has just received a cable gram from Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan minister to Washing ton, who is now in Caracas, stating that the Venezuelan government has accepted the agreement'reach ed by the United States and Great Britain for the arbitration of the boundary dispute. The dispatch further states that an extra session of the Venezuelan congress has been called to consid er the treaty. Thus tin last ob stacle to the amicable conclusion of this important dispute will bo removed. Women as Librarians. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 10.—The state senate today passed the bill making women eligible to the office of state li brarian. As the measure had already gone through the house, only the Gov ernor’s signature is wanting to make it a law. It is confidently expected the governor "will approve the bill and un der its operations, appoint Miss Ellen Dortch, its real author, to the office. We all know that any tired mus cle can be restored by rest. Your stomach is a muscle. Dyspepsia is its manner of saying “I am tir ed. Give me rest.” To rest the stomach you must do its work out side of the body. This is the Shaker’s method of curing indigestion, and its success is best attested by the fact that these people are practically free from what is without doubt the most prevalent of all diseases. The Shaker Digestive Cordial not only contains digested food which is promptly absorbed without taxing the tired digestive organs, but it is likewise an aid to the digestion of other foods in the stomach. A 10 cent trial bottle will convince you of its merit, and these you can obtain through all druggists. Laxol is the best medicine for children. Doctors recommend it in place of Castor Oil. PECULIAR in combination, pro portion and preparation of ingredi ents,Hood’s Sarsaparilla possesses great curative value. You should TRY IT. Explained at Last. The ostrich when pursued in the desert runs his head in the sand and thinks he is hidden. This is because there is more sand in the desert than there is in the ostrich —Boston Transcript. Tutt’s Pills Cure All Liver Ills. Doctors Say; Bilious and Intermittent Fevers which prevail in miasmatic dis tricts are invariably accompan ied by derangements of the Stomach Liver and Bowels. The Secret of Health. The liver is the great ” driving wheel” in the mechanism of man, and when it is out of order, the whole system becomes de ranged and disease is the result. Tutt’s Liver Pills i Cure all Liver Troubles, No. 41.