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OLD FLOYD
t.
Gives Alien D. Candler the
Banner Majority.
MORS THAN 2.500 VOTES
Over the “Running Mates” The
State Returns.
Floyd county gives /Mien D
Candler the biggest majority
given by any county in Georgia
for any state house officer where
there was any show of a contest.
As stated in the Hustler-Com
mercial yesterday afternoon,
Floyd county gave Col. Candler
a majority of more than 2,500
votes over both his opponents.
This vote has surprised Col.
Candler’s friends in Floyd, not
so much on the heavy percent
age majority as upon the size of
the returns, his majority being
greater than any Roman expect
ed the entiregubernacorial vote
would be.
The Hustler-Commercial has
frequently suited that Mr. Atkin
son would not get a tenth of the
vote in this county. He did not
get one out of twelve.
Mr. Berner was never known
in the race so far as Floyd was
concerned. He did not speak
here and if he tver wrote any
epistles to the Romans they were
not made public.
On the other hand, Mr. At
kinson made a “dead set” to I
carry the county. His friends
were more than aggressive,
the}’ were enterprising.
And Mr. Atkinson came to
Rome two or three times, speak
ing here once.
1 hen he secured a registration
ist of Floyd county and wrote a
personal letter to every vo*er in
the county. This, alone, must
have cost the Judge a cool hun
dred d} liars.
But for all that and everything
else employed and resorted to in
the campaign, locally speaking,
Spencer only received 257 votes
out of about 3350 polled. This,
however, was a clear seven-to
cne over the entire “37” that
were given to Hanlsome Bob.
Floyd has done herself proud,
i She is the banner county for
gubernatorial majorities in the
late primary—and that, too, in
spite of the famous “Epistle to
the Romans.”
STATE RETURNS.
Col. Candler hrs prospered
almost as well as the state, how
ever. as he has in Floyd. The
returns show that he has carried
98 counties out of the 137 and
that he will have in the state
convention 260 out of the 350
delegates.
Col. Candler’s victory has
. been a veritable landslide. In
Richmond,where the Tom Hight
letter was “unearthed” and s
Mexican Sunday bull fighter
daily flourished, Col. Candler j
was given more than two to one
in the primary.
In Chatham, where another I
Sunday bull fi .liter paper did '
business, and where both dailies I
opposed him, he was victorious. ■
In Muscogee, where all the j
newspapers fought him, Col.
Candler won brilliantly.
i Fulton, despite the Journal,
wheeled into his column, while /
Bibb, with the Macon Tele- 1
graph’s offices used as “consul
tation” rooms by the “running
mates” did not cast a vote
| against the “Plowboy of Pigeon -1 1
j roost.” (
Tn Clark, where the Athens (
Banner started out for him and I
afterwards turned and made a
bitter assault upon him from ' j
i
day to da} he has received a big
majority •
In Chattooga his majority is
almost as splendid as John W.
Maddox’s big vote. And in
Merri wether, the home of
Brigadier Bill rnd the possum
supper, he almost carried the
county.
And so on down the line of
counties are to be found start
ling results showing that the
the people were in the saddle
and that Allen D. Candler, the
old commoner and their beloved
leader is a man of destiny.
From the returns that are in
Candler has received more than
four to one of the popular vote
over. Berner and Atkinson both.
The nominees on the state
house ticket are as follows :
For Governor —Alien D. Can
dler.
F<r Secretary of State--Phillip
Cook,
For Piison Commissioner — <
J. 8. Turner.
For Comptroller Ueneral — Wil
liam A. Wright.
For Trea'i rer—W. J Speer.
For Commissioner of Agricul- *
tyre—O. B Stevens.
For Commissioner of Education (
—G. R. Glenn.
<
For Attorney General— I, M.
| Ferrell.
I
CON ACQUITTED. :
I
' Fhf Killing Os John t
u as Justified By The Jury. g
At' iota. June B.—At 3 :50 o’clock
th s ifteiiioon the joiy trying the a
case of John Cox for the murder
John Coni y returned a verdiet of
g
not guilty t
The jury was only a short time a
making up its decision and as ibt t
casa closed it was apparent the de- c
fendant w i dbe acquitted. The L
g
case was c ed yesterday morning
and concl Jed at 3 this afternoon. •
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Mr JI. P. Hale of Allan ta, is F
in the city. <5
HORRIBLE CRIME.
Hot Seeing,s, Ark., June B.
J. W. Etting, a prominent bus
iness m m, this morning cut his
wife’s throat with a razor and
then committed suicide with the
same weapon. Business troubles
is believed to have caused Etting
to become temporary insane.
A Significant Admission.
London, June 8 The Times
commenting editorially on the
fact that the Cuban authorities
at Havana permitted its corres
pondent, M. Knight, to discharge
iiis function in forwarding the
dispatch as to Monday’s engage
ment :
“His dispatch says that ‘the
American fire was damaging. ’
TO f
As he doubtless is subjected to
rigid censorship this admission
is significant, anti his statement
that ‘the Americans were re
pulsed at Aouadort-s’ is probably
correct.”
The editor in summing up the
situation says : ‘Spanish obsti
nacy may prolong the war for
many months. The American
government is acting wisely and
prudently in refusing to send to
Cuba an a.uny of untrained vol
unteers. Little attention need be
given to peace rumors.”
Ba> rm Y.iung People Uni n.—
Rev, O, P. Gilbert, pastor of the
Second Baptist churct), left today
to attend the s ate convention of
th° Baptist Yuuug People’s Union
at Macon.
Last Nights Fire—Last night
about 10 o’clock fire was discover
ed in the basement of G. J. Bry
snt’s liquor house, corner Broad
street and Second avenue . The
fire department was called and
arrived with their usual pr. mpt
ness and soon had the blaze under
control . Damage $450 fully
covered by insurance. The fire
started in a pile of boxes.
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During our discount
?ale all straw hats at
half price J B Watters
& Son,
i hi mfi i
PUBLIC StLEGF
TATE.
Georgia floydcounty.—Whereas
on the 20th day of December 1897
8 Timothy Goins executed and de
-1 nveredto Mrs. A. H. Cheney a
e note ami mortgage on the laud
hereinafter described for the pur
-8 pose of securing the debt repre
gjseuted by said note, which mort
uage is recorded in the clera’a of
-1 fice of Floyd Superior Court in
book N. 1, of mortgages, page
i, And whereas in said mortgage
e said Timothy Goins gave to Wrap
A. II Cheney the power to sell sai ■
8 land in case of default in the
i- prompt payment at maturity of
e the principal and interest of said
debt. Now therefore by virtue of
e the power so vested in the uuder
! signed, which is more accurately
I shown by reference to said morl--
e gage, Mrs. A. H. Cheney will sell
L at public outcry to the highest
bidder for cash on the firat Tues
j day in June 1898, during the legal
( hours of sale before the court bouse
door in Rome, Ga., the land de-
1 scribed in the aforesaid mortgage,'
- towit: Beginning at the South
r west corner of the lot bought of
William A. Fort and Mary F.
Fhomas by Amanda Caperton,
i (which deed is hereby referred to)
. and running thence East 60 feet,
thcucA due North 831 feet more or
, 1 less to the Northern lino of said
I j lot, thence Southwest to the cor
ner of said lot.thence bouth to the '
’ beginning point a distarce of 361
feet containing one-half of an acre
> 1 more or less. ]
Ihe said i ote ami mortgage ,
were g ven to secure an indebted
ness of $25-00 with 8% interest '
, [ from date and 10% attorney fees. '
■ The said note and mortgage are <
now past due and so declared. The e
total amount of principal, inter- <
est and and attorney's fees tnd
charges and expenses of sale that 1
will be due on said note and 1
mortgage on the first Tuesday in <
, June 1898, is $35.60. Fee simple i
titles in accordance with the pow |
er of sale contained in said mort
gage will be made to the purchaser
at said sale, and the proceeds of
(Such sale will be applied to the
payment of said debt with inter
est, attorney’s feesand expenses
of sale and the remainder, n any,
will be paid over to the person en
titled to same. This May sth 1898,
Mrs. A. H. Cheney.
By W. T. Cheney, Att’y,
W. T, C. Cheney will
ake in and wry tax .
CHEAP RATES.
( The Southern R’y operates 3
daily trains between Rome and
• Chattanooga, by which parties
. can leave Rome in the morning,
■ spend the day in Chattanoiga
and return home same evening.
The schedule between these
points is as follows. Leave Rome
1 :00 a. m. arrive Chattanooga
4 :15 a. in.; leave Rome 10:35
arrive Chattanooga 1: 00 p. m. 1
leave Rome 6 :25 a. tn. arrive
Chattanooga 8 :50 p. in. There
is alto a local train leaving Rome
3:50 p. m. going by the way of
Cohutta and Cleveland and ar
rives Chattanooga 7:20 p. m.
Returning, trains leave Chatta
nooga 6 :30 a. in. arrive Rome
9:00 a. in. ; leave Chattanooga
3:10 p. in arrive Rome 5:35 p.
tn. ; leave Chattanooga 10 :10 p.
arrive Rome 1 :44 a. in. Pull
I man sleeping cars on all train*.
For further information call
on J. N. Harrison, citv pusasi
ger and ticket agent, Rnnd.bi.
iPhone 39.
LEFTERB OF ADMINISTRA-
TION.
GEORGIA. FLOYD COUNTY 1
To all whom it may ceucern.
Equitable mortgage company
having in proper form applied to
me for permanent letters of “d
--ministration on the estate oi
B. Wiggins, late of said c uniy
deceased . This is to cite all 1,1
singular the criditors and next
of kin of Wm B. Wiggin? to f ’
and appear at my office within
the time allowed by law aud sb w
cause, if any they can, why P er
manent administration shou'd not
be granted to W. H. Ennis Co.
Admr. on Wm. B. Wiggin a estate.
Witness my hand and officii 1 Hl2
nature this 2nd day May 189 S.
John P. Davis.
It rests with yon whether yon
nerve-killing toba.u<o habit. N <>• r i& jTO
uuiover the desire fur tobacco, R BTuskKl
•ut nervous dis treat, expels I k 1 ■ • Ost jX
inc, purifies the blood, 11 lx>xef
stores lost manhood. 400 000
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