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VOL IX CIHZZR, IS T ZNT JL S rr-- — at -K- LANHAM | SONS We are 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 hasjust returned from New York where he bought the Largest line of all New Goods ever brought to Rome. Our prices are the lowest. : I - . ■ 1 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, Clothing, etc., is-Sfiir.g sold for Loss jwney than by other merchants! o Our Millinery Department Is ccrtalnlg the Dost tn Rome. Wo soil Hats. Gaqcs. etc., real Cheap, and thou are ot the Finest and most Stylish In Georgia. o LOOK /VT THESE PRICES! Fur Trimmed Capes as low as 50 c Infants Plush Hoods or Capes only 5 c v Infants and Childrens Knit Sacks only 10 c All Wool Flannel Per Yard 84c Cotton “ “ “ 34c Cotton Checks, Real Good 3|c Bed Blankets, each, only 20 c Lace Curtains perpair 35 c Towels, each 2jc Pretty Double Width Worsted 10 c “ “ “ Cashmere Worsted 0n1y... 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 al! you want and by getting everything at Our Store Save Money and troubile. 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 ■' Sewing Machine. We sell the celebrated New Home Machine. Caso of Finest Quarter Sawed Oak, and of very’ latest style at $25, others ask $45. L/lrNrtftM * SONS. Wholesale and Retail. 314 to 326 Fifth Ave., ROME, GA. THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 23, 1896. KAMES TftE JUDGES. Senator Carter, the Populist, Keeps His Promise. Atlanta, Dec. 15—Senator Yan cey Carter, of the 3lst district, has given the names of Judge J. L- Sweat, of the Brunswick circuit and Judge Seaborn Reese, of the! Northern circuit, as the judges! whom he referred to in his sensa-! tional speech on the bill by Sena tor Hopkins to make judges elec tive by the people. The Populist senator presented his report to the senate at 9 o’clock tonight formal ly charging the two judges men tioned with conduct unbecoming members of the judiciary. Sena tor charges that Judge Sweat visi ted a summer resort in company with a young woman claiming to be his stenographer and that the pair were found together in the judge’s room at the hotel. He charges Judge Reese with having used profane and indecent language while on the bench and in the presence of ladies. The senator states that if an investiga tion is set on foot he will produce in detail and with exact specifica tions charges against the two judges and against others not yet named. The senator’s charges were laid over until tomorrow with out debate. Senator Batt'e offered a resolution transmitting the charges to the house, the law re quiring that investigations of in quiry shall be investigated by that body. The naming of the judges created little surprise and excite ment in the senate. Few people know that all plants contain digestive principles. They cannot absorb their food Until it is digested any more than animals can. The Mount Lebanon Shaker s have learned the art of extract ing and utilizing these digestive principles and it is for this reason that their Digestive Cordial is meeting with such phenomenal success in the treatment of dyspep sia . The Shaker Digestive Cordial not only contains food already di gested, but it also contains diges tive principles which aid the diges tion of other foods that may be eaten with it. A single 10 cent sample bottle will be sufficient to demonstrate its value, and we sug gest that eveiy suffering dyspeptic make a trial of it. Any druggist can supply it. Laxol is the best medicine for children. Doctors recommend it in place of Castor Oil. In the recent presidential elec tion Georgia gave Palmer 2,708 votes, McKinley 60,191 and Bryan 94,232. \ Cramps,\ \ Croup. \ » \ \»-’\ 1 \ Colds, \ 1 ache, \ ». DIARRHOBA. DYSENTERY, < fr aud all BOWEL COMPLAINTS. A Sure, Safe, Quick Cure for these 7 troubles is PdinKiUerl (PXRBT DAVIS’.) £ Vsed Internally an# Externally. » Two Sizes, 25c. and BOc. bottles. J £ BLOOD BALM. ! A household remedy for all Blood and 8 Skin diseases. Cures without fail, Scrof- ft ula,Ulcers, Rheumatism. Catarrh. Salt Rheum * I ana every form ot Blood Disease from the ft simplest pimple to the foulest Ulcer. Fifty w years’ use with unvarying success, dem- X castrates its paramount healing, purify- ft I Ing and building up virtues. One bottle * has more curative viitue than a dozen of * any other kind. It builds up the health M and strength from the first dose. S rVWkITE for Book of Won* * Iderful Cures, sent free on appll* • cution. If not kept by your local druggist, send S SLOG for a large bottle, or 85.00 for six bot- S ties, and medicine will be sent, freight | paid, by S 1 BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ba. g How “Sweet By and By” Hap pened to Be Written, Louisville Post. In Richmond, a little town of less than 1,000 inhabitants, almost on the southern boundary lines of Illinois, lives the author of “In the Sweet By and By.” He is a practicing physician, and is under 60 years of age. The immortal hymn was written when he was on ly 31, and is the single song of his life. During the civil war a wave of moral elevation and intellectual activity passed over the country. In this grand awakening of the conscience there was a flood of music—martial, religious, domes tic. George F. Root and Stephen J. Foster were both writing songs that lived and Sunday school hymns passed out of the driveling period into ore of elevated simpli city . Just at this time Samuel Fill more Bennett was graduated from Ann Arbor, Mich ~ an<* began a newtpaper career at Elkhorn, Wis , on the Independent. J. P. Web ster, the musical composer, was living in the same town, and it a few months before the editor and the musician were col laborating. The war intervened, and Lieut. Bennett, of the Fortieth Wisconsin volunteers, returned to Elkhorn to open a drug store and resume bis verse writing. He and Mrs. Webster began in 1867 to work on a Sunday school song book, called “The Signet Ring,’ which was afterwards published. This period of his life is the most precious of all his experiences to Dr. Bennett. Not long ago he told the whole story to an interes ted group of listeners, his eyes fill ing with tears as he vindicated his friend from calumnies. “Currency has been given to the shameful story that Mr. Webster was drunk when he wrote the mu sic, and another account has it that we were both drunk. I am thankful to do justice to one of the noblest men that ever lived— a fine, sensitive soul, with the true artistic feeling. Again, it has been said that we were both infidels, and the song the ribald jest of a ca rouse. As to my rsligion, that is my own affair; but the hope and longing of every immortal soul as expressed in that song was the faith of both of us. To both crea tion would have seemed a farce if infinite love and immortality had not overshadowed us and promised a life of bliss beyond the grave. “Mr. Webster, like many musi cians, was of an exceedingly ner vous and sensitive nature and sub ject to fits of depression. I knew his peculiarities well, and when I found him given up to blue devils, I just gave him a cheerful song to work on. One morning he came into the store and walked to the stove without speaking. “What’s up now, Webster,’ I asked. “‘lt’s no matter. It will be all right by and by.’ “The idea of the hymn came *o me like a flash of sunshine. ‘Ti-. Sweet By and By.’ Everything will be all right then. ‘Why wouldn’t that make a g >od hymn?’ “‘Maybe it would,’ he replied, gloomily. Turning to the desk, I wrote as rapidly as I could. In less than half an hour, I think, the song as it stands now was written. Here it is: There's .a an 1 that is fairer thin <liy, And by faith we can see it afar, For the Father waits over the way To prepare us a dwelling place there. Chorus. In the sweet by-and by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore Ii the sweet by-and-by, We shall meet on that beautiful shore . We shall sing on that beau'iful shore J The melodious Sotigs of the blest, Highest of all in Leavening Strength.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Royal ABSOLUTELY PURE And our spirits shall sorrow no more— Not a sigh for the blessing of rest! Chorus. To our bountiful Father above We will offer our tribute of praise, For the glorious gift of his love And the blessings that hallow our days. “In the meantime two friends F. H. Carswell and S. E. Bright, had come in. I handed the verses to Mr. Webster, a little tremulous with emotion. As he read it his eyes kindled. Stepping to the desk, he began jotting down the notes. He picked up his violin and tried them. In ten minutes we four gentlemen were singing that song. R. R. Crosby came in, and with ters inhis eyes, said: ‘Gentle men, that hymn is immortal. We were all excited, elated. Within two weeks the children of the town were singing it on the streets. “In 1868 ‘The Signet Ring’ was published, the publisher distribu ting circulars to advertise it, and on the sheets was ‘The Sweet By and By.’ On the strength of that one song nearly a quarter of a million copies of the book were sold. The song was afterward brought out in sheet music, and it has been translated into a number of foreign languages. “Webster, Crosby and Carswell are all dead. S. E. Bright, of Fort Atkinson, Wis., and myself are the only living witnesses to the origin of the song.” lAfONDERFUL are the cures by ■ ■ Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and yet they are simple and natural. Hood’s Sarsa parilla makes PURE BLOOD. FIRST ONE FAILED. Bridges Victorious in One of the Indictments Against Him. Rome, Ga., December 16.—(Spe cial.) —In the city court this morn ing before Judge Harris the case of T. B. Owens against W. M. Bridges on the charge of cheating and swindling, in which an indict ment was found some time ago, came up for a hearing. Judge Branham introduced a demurrer setting forth that the indictment did not show sufficient cause for its finding by the grand jury, and Judge Harris sustained the de murrer and dismissed the case. This is only one of four indict ments of a simi’ar nature, and it is supposed that the quashing of this indictment will settle the other three. This is a victory for Bridges in the beginning of a long series of indictments growing out of his al leged defalcations while school commissioner of Floyd county. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particu larly effective in the oure of Con stipation and Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. Thev I are guaranteed to be perfectly free i from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They i do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the sys tem. Regular size 25c per box Sold b aH. H. A rrington Druggist A prominent citizen, enlightens a new comer, “When I first came to this town, I didn’t have a suit of clothes to my back. New comer, astonished says. “You must I.e mistaken.” “No,” said the prom inent citizen, “I was botn here.' 1 WATSON’S_OONTEST Will Come Up for Hearing Jan. 8. Tom Watson will make his final try for a seat in congress January 8, when the hearing of the Watson- Black contest case will be had before the elections commit tees of congress in Washington. The hearing was fixed for Janu ary Bth at a meeting of the com mittee yesterday. It will be ar gued by Messrs. Gross and West, of Thomson, and Colonel W. C Glenn, attorneys for Mr. Watson, and Messrs. Bryan Cumming and Henry Cohen fc.r Hon. J. C. C. Black. The hearing will boa live ly one, as it will deal largely with the frauds alleged to have been perpetrated in the congressional election in the tenth district two years ago. Can’t Please Everybody. Our esteemed contemporary, the Clarksville Times, is moved to re mark: “We have heard of a man who is not pleased with our paper. Well, we are not surprised, since we are making no effort to please everybody in getting out our paper. But this incident calls to mind the sentiment of an editor who wore patience to frazzel and fringed his soul with dissatisfaction—but he has opened his eyes. The printing press has made presidents, killed poets, furnished bustles for beau ties and punished genius with crit icism. It has made paupers out of college presidents. It has edu cated the homeless and robbed the philosopher of his reason; it smiles and cries and dies, but can’t be run to suit everybody and the ma i will go crazy who tries. The Dortch Bill Signed. Gov. Atkinson put his signature to the Dortch bill last Tuesday and it is now a law, Under this bill a woman is eligible to hold the office of state librarian of the state of Georgia. Miss Dortch has announced her candidacy the position, and will probably be the only woman candidate in the race. There are several men running for the posi tion and the contest will excite much interest throughout the state. Capt- Milledge’s term as libra rian expires September, 1897. People who are always in high spirits soon wear out, s iys a phy sician. It may be, but people who are always low spirited wear other people out. 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 Cure all Liver Troubles , No. 42.