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VOL X PAPERS STOLEN. Solicitor Wright’s Desk Robbed of Bill of In dictment. BRIDGES’ DOCUMENTS GONE Raised Checks and Other Evidence have Myster iously Disappeared. Rome, Ga., July 27 —The big gest sensation of years was sprung upon the people of Rome this morning when Solicitor General Moses Wright announced to the court that someone had entered his office last night and stolen all the papers, including the bill of indictment in the celebrated Bridges case. The case of W. M. Bridges was called yesterday morning in the superior court, and a continuance was asked by the defense. This was overruled by the judge and the trial proceeded. Solicitor Wright took all the papers, including the bill of in dictment and the raised checks and locked them in his desk last night. This morning when ho opened the doors of his office he noticed some confusion among the furni ture and upon opening his desk his suspicions were aroused by the confused pile c.f papers he had carefully assorted last night. The news flew over the city like wildfire, and it has been a long time since Romans have been so excited. The trial the people have been demanding for more than two years seemed abouj to break down but the solicitor foresaw what might be the result if the trial was not carried on, and began search for grounds by which ho cou'd le gally go on. There was a copy of the original bill of indictment which was taken from the solicitor's desk, and when court was called to order this morning these copies of the mis sing napers were offered as suffi cient grounds to go on. After lengthy arguments by both sides, Judge Henry ruled in favor of the state. A similar occurrence to the one that happened in the solicitor's of fice last night took place in this county once before. The people demand an investigation, and de mand that the loose manner in which a certain class of criminals are, and have been dealt with in the courts of this county be aban doned. The people are very much stirred up and demand a trial of Bridges at once. The Grandest Remedy. Mr. R. B. Greeve, merchant of Chilhowie, Ya., certifies that he had consumption and was given up to die, sought all medical treat ment that money could procures tried all cough remedies he could hear of, but got no relief; spend many nights sitting up in a chair; was induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery and was cured by use of two bottles. For past three years has been attending to busi ness and says Dr. King’s New Dis covery is the grandest remedy ever made, as it has done so much for him and also for others in bis community. Dr. King’s New Dis covery is guaranteed for Coughs. Colds and Consumption. It don't fail. Trial bottles free at Arring ton's drug store. The Savannah Press says the fin-t bale is a little late, but it promises to by very numerous. Ihe best thing about the gold craze is that it will kill off a lot of good-for nothings and settle a new country.—- New York Press. THE SUMMERVILLE NEW RUCKER MAKES BOND. He Will Take Charge Os The Internal Revenue Office In Atlanta. Washington, July 28. —Rucker made his bond today and will leave for home ready to assume the ro'e of internal revenue collector on the 31st. I learn that during the last in terview Rucker had with the pres ident, the latter urged him to be very prudent and to do all in his power to prevent his deputies from running counter to the prejudices of the white element of the state. He suggested to Rucker the ad visability of not appointing anv negroes to positions which would bring them in contact with the white people as 'arresting officers. Rucker assured the president that ho would do all in his power to please the people of Georgia and to reflect honor upon the adminis tration. Rucker was secured the partial promise that the surveyor will be appointed in August. It is always gratifying to receive testimonials for Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy, and when the endorsement is from a physician it is especially so. “There is more satisfactory or effective remedy than Chamber lain’s Cholic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy,” writes Dr. R. E. Robey, physician and pharmacist, of Olney, Mo.; and as he had used the Remedy in his own family and sold it in his drug store for six years, he should certainly know. For sale by 11. H. Arrington. Big Mills to Close Down. Boston. July 27.—Hon. T. Jef ferson Coolidge, treasurer of the big Amoskeag cotton mills, of Manchester, N. H., one of the larg est plants of the kindin the world, says, regarding the shutting down of the mills, which was announced yesterday: “We have made up our accounts for the first six months of the year and find that we have made no money and have not moved our goods, so I have ordered the mills closed for the month of August, at least.’’ The dividends of the Amoskeag mills have been reduced during the past 12 months. The closing of these mills affect about 6,000 op eratives. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. Suggestions To Housekeepers. You will find that a solution of ox-gall, in the proportion of one pint of the gall to two gallons of warm soft water, as good a cleans ing agent for your carpet as the patent cleaners that cost twice as much. The latter do good work, and make a carpet look new and bright, but they cost a little more than the old-fashioned prepara tion. When willow furniture gets dus ty, scrub it thoroughly with a stiff brush, warm water and a white soap. If it has been tinted, or col ored, use clear water, and the brush, and dry in the shade. The natu ral colored willow is whitened by being in the sun after it is cleaned. | A poultice should never be made thick or heavy. Its w sight oppres es the patient. It should be fre quently renewed, for when it be comes cold a poultice is more fre quently an injury than a remedial agent. The virtue of a poultice is most potent when it is warm and moist, Yet it must not be so moist as to drip, or it will cause great discomfort to the patient. C.&JSTOTII.A.. SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COINTV, GEORGIA, AUGUST 4, 18,-7. STATE STORIES. Short Items of State And General News. BATCH OF PASSING EVENTS, What The Busy World Is Do ing—Short Paragraphs of Interest. Georgia peaches are netting $1.25 per crate of three pecks. A Georgian has declined an of fice; he is Albert Foster, of Atlan ta. A Cherokee county gold mine has been sold to Northern gentle men for $15,000. The Bartow grand jury has re turned 33 true bills, mostly cases of whiskey selling. The murderer Perry, of DeKalb county, has been sentenced to hang on the 18th of August. The United States will establish a military post near the Alaska gold fields. Thu courthouse of DeKalb coun ty which is located at Decatur, will be removed from that place to Stone Mountain. Hon. W, E. Walker a prominent farmer, of near Hephzibah, was stricken with paralysis while at work in his field. A primary is to be held in New ton county on August 6, to nomi nate Hon. R. U. Hardeman’s suc cessor in the legislature. Judge M. W. Beck granted a new trial to Taylor Delk, charged with the murder of Sheriff Gwyn of Pike county. John Tyler Cooper, of Atlanta, convicted of embezzlement and who was out on bond pending an appeal to the Supreme court, was arrested and placed in jail last week. x Several days since Mrs : Marcel lus Ernest, who lives near Cyrene, Decatur county, gave birth to a nine pound daughter, and mother and child are doing well. Mr. Ernest, the father, is only 16 and his wife is only 13 years of age. Prominent citizens of Atlanta are being sharply criticised for in dorsing the application of Rucker, the negro who was yesterday ap pointed collector of internal reven ue. It is supposed that on these indorsements more than on any other ground, the President, in his ignorance of prevailing conditions here, made the appointment. Cur rent comments on the subject are warm. “It’s no joke” when we say that Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic is super ior to anything offered “the dear people” as a dressing for wounds, burns, bites and stings of insects, poison oak, etc. It’s cleanliness, pleasant ordor and quick cures makes it universal favorite where ever known. Sold dy all up to date druggists. Educate Tour Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. Tom and Ben Killian were in dicted by tho grand jury for mur der in the second degree. They are the two who had a pitched bat tle with the Galloways at Crudup, DeKalb county, Alabama, in which Jean Galloway, the youngest son of T. C. Galloway, was killed and his brother Charles was badly wounded. Ben Kilian was also shot, and for a while it was thought that he would die. The trouble originated over the A. G. S. near Crudup The Killians were work ing the road's property and the Galloways tried to drive them off. The trial is to come off Sept. 3d. UNDER A NEW NAME. 01dC.,R. & 0. Becomes The Chattanooga, Rome And Southern. The old Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus railway, sold to the bondholders recently, has at last been reorganized under the name of the Chattanooga, Rome and Southern, and in a short while the rolling stock of the company will bear the above inscription in glow ing colors. As predicted in The Times sev eral weeks ago, C. B. Wilburn, former traffic manager, has been made general manager and presi dent of the new company. The Chattanooga, Rome and Southern has just purchased a large grain warehouse at Rome, Ga., which will be converted into a freight depot. It is understood that the new company will at once make a number of extensive im provements.—Chattanooga Times. Wanted —Everybody to go to his druggist and get a bottle of Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic, the most wonderful healing compound of the nineteenth century. Money returned if it fails to give satisfac tion after fair trial. Heals Wounds, Burns, etc., like magic. Pleasant as perfume and does not stain the clothing. 50c. Gold. There seems to be no sound in all the world more allurring and agreeable to the average man than that round, rich, full-toned sylla ble, “gold.” See how it has stirred the country from the rigorous northwest to the Florida keys. It is drawing thousands of souls from comfortable homes and general climates to the hardships, suffer ings, perils and privations of ice locked Alaska. By train and team and bicycle they are hastening to the ocean ports of the Pacific northwest, there to crowd every departing steamer —an eager, for tune-seeking company. Fifty years nearly since ’49, and how plain it is that half a century makes no difference in the charm the yellow metal has for the sons of men. Some will see their dreams of sacksful of the precious stuff come true, some will bring back a burden of disappointment, and some, alas, will leave their bones where rolls the glacier-chilled wat ers of the Yukon. But why talk of comfort or think of perils when gold, gold, gold is to be had for the picking up ! True, it is to be had in cabbage gardens and pota to patches and day’s labor, but such finds are too slow and sure to suit the restless, adventur spir it of the fortune hunter. “Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. Molten, graven, hammered and rolled; Heavy to get and light to hold; Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled, Spurned by the young but hugged by the old, To the very verge of the churchyard mold. —Detroit Free Press. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy always af ford prompt relief. For sale by H. H. Arrington. Experts estimate the cotton crop of Texas this year as equal to the crop of 1894, which was 3,114,000 bales. The crop of the state in 1880 was 803,642 bales of 440 pounds each. So the crop this year will be about four times as much as that of seventeen years ago. This will help to explain the lower price of cotton now, as com pared to prices in the days of much smaller crops.—Chattanooga Times. To Care Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. C. C. fail t 9 cure, druggists refund money. DREADED SIDALLPOX Twenty=Eight Well De veloped Cases Near Birmingham. OTHERS ARETUSPECTED. The Epidemic Has Been Con fined Largely to Carbon Hill, a Suburb Birmingham, Ala., July 27. — There are now twenty-eight cases of smallpox at the pest house on Red Mountain, two miles from this city. The twenty-eigth case was developed this morning and was immediately sent to the mountain There are about ton suspected cas es also at the camp of detention on the mountain, but none of those have yet shown eruption. The most vigorous measures are being put into force by the health and city authorities to stamp out the disease and prevent its further spread. As soon as a suspicious case is found, it is hurried out of town, the bedding where it came from burned and the premises dis infected. At a joint meeting of the Jefferson county medical socie ty and citizens held last night, the situation was reviewed and it was officially proclaimed that the dis ease is smallpox, there having been a conflict of opinion among medi cal men up to this time. State Health Officer Dr. W. H Sanders, of Mobile, told of the his tory of the cases that had prevail ed in different parts of the state and said that the measures being taken here to stamp it out are so thorough as to render quarantine needless. The citizens of Bessemer held a meeting last night and raised the quarantine which that town has had on against Birmingham for the past week, the mayor having visit ed this city and found things in satisfactory shape. The physicians from Montgomery who came here yesterday and investigated matters reported against any quarantine measures. A Cullman delegation did like wise today. The only quarantine now extant is that of Pratt City, a suburban town. There is little excitement here and business moves on as usual. The authorities have the epidemic under full control and expect to soon have it stamped out complete ly. Vaccination has become gen eral. The epidemic has been confined almost entirely to the negro min ers of Carbon Hill, a suburb. Lyons Will Be Appointed. Washington, July 28. —The ap pointment of Judson Lyons was expected today . The postmaster general took Lyons’ papers to the white house yesterday and discuss ed to the case with the president. It is understood that Mr. Gary has withdrawn his objcections to Lyons at the special request of the presi dent, who said that the Augusta negro had to bo taken care of and that there was no other place he could find for him. This case is one of those which will be settled during the presi dent’s vacation. Mr. Pruden said that a number of appointments would be made while the president was away and that the names of the lucky ones would be given out from the white house as usual. Dr. Burton Waid declares there is one infallible sympotm indicating whether oue is sane or not. Let a per son speak ever so rationally and act ever so sedately, if hjs or her thumbs remain inactive there is no doubt of insanity. Lunatics seldom make use of their thumbs when writing firaw ing or saluting.—New York Press, s. NW " » 1 i@l gNGPofI POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures the food against alum and all fornfs of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Royal Baking Powder Co. New York. Punishing Georgia. From the Savannah News. Why should the president have chosen Georgia as the state in which to set up his shining exam ple of the party’s love for the black race? The president knows that there is in this state a strong feel ing against the elevation ot black men to important offices. In some other states —in Ohio for instance —we have been led to believe that t his feeling does not exist so strong ly ; would it not, therefore, have been better for the president to give a black man a big office in Ohio? Os course neither tho pres ident, nor Senator Hanna, nor Sen ator Foraker, would object to hav ing a negro internal revenue collector in Ohio. Probably there would not be any objection to one in that office in Massachusetts But there is in Georgia a sentiment a gainst such things. However, pro tests would probably be useless. It is said the president is fully de termined to set up his example somewhere, and since Georgia is not a McKinley state, a little hu miliation for her is probably deem ed to bo about the proper thing. It is to bo hoped, now that Rucker has been selected, that tho proba bilities of negroes being put into big postoffices and port collector ships have been dimished. ■ II - Humors in the Blood, boils, pimples, scrofula, sores, are promptly eradicated by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the One True Blood Purifier, nerve t'mic and health builder. Hood’s Pills are easy to take, easy to operate. Cure indigestion, billiousness. 25c. The South’s Progress. There is no question as to tho South’s wealth of natural bounties, says the Augusta - Chronicle. She has the raw material in greatest abundance and at the least cost for the chief industries in tbeNi w England and the middle states, in dustries that have done so much to enrich these sections and to make their people prosperous. If our mining and manufacturt ing interests are developed as they should be, and if our farmers will produce their own food supplies a glorious future awaits the South . In agriculture and in manufac tures, the South is blessed with a bundant natural advantages, which if properly utilized, are bound to give her power and wealth. The increase in exports from Southern ports means a great deal for Southern development. It is the substantial evidence of South ern progress. Only a few years ago the export business of the South was handled through the North Atlantic States. As the Record states the fact is that Southern ports, for the year ending June 3<)th have dis tanced all others not only in the percentage of increase, but in the actual increase. Mo-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 50c, 11. All druggist* No. 22