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Bussells carpet, mid i. line 1n I laid 55c M Genuine Smyrna Rugs, 4X7 feet $4.45 W
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Axminster, Wilton’s, Velvets and Saxony car- /I “ “ “ 26X52 inches 1.65
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UNDERTAKERS, . EMBALMERS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
RIVERS BOOJW ,
The Raidfall Ualieard of For
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The Season.
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THOUSANDS OF ACRES
Os Corn and Cotton Submerged
And Ruined.
Never before in the history of
this section has there been such
a rainfall at this season of the
year.
And never before have the
inhabitants of Rome and the
surrounding country seen the
rivers at this season in the
condition they are in.
The government guage on
Fifth avenue showed the Oosta
naula to be at 19 feet at 5 o’clock
yesterday morning, according to
Mr. Frank Bale.
At 5 yesterday afternoon the,
river had climbed to the 23 5
notch and with the rain coming
down at an all-night-long-and
half-of-next-day lick the outlook
was ominous.
Col. W. M. Towers, than
whom no man in Rome knows
more of the habits of the rivers
of this section, says that the
rainfall for the 24 hours prior to
fi o’clock yesterday afternoon
only 2 69in, for Romo
Dr. S . iv.he same time, however,
an l children Kesaca, up the Oosta
from their vacation 5 70in. This ac
delightfully in the heavy rise in the
North Carolina. Tin.
ih^tri 6 and h ' B f ? mi ‘stated to the
the trip immensely an , ,
have been improved i ,al tbatul 1118
e just as heavy
next 24 hours
on the lowest I
. itreet.
This, in all probability, will
not fall. The people, however,
who reside in the low districts
are feeling very while
the farmers who have heavy
crops on the bottom lands are
gloomy over the outlook, know
ing that only a rise of a few feet
will inundate and destroy thous
ands of dollars worth of grain
and cotton.
Hundreds of acres of corn and
cotton are already under the
murky waters and will be ruin
ed.
REBELS WIN BIG BATTLE.
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Chinese Government Troops
Lost 3,000 Men.
London, Sep),s.—A special
dispatch from Shanghiai dated
Wednesday, says: “Toe Chi
nese government troops, it is
reported, have been defeated in
too pitched battles during the
last ten days by the Kwang Si
rebels, losing three thousand
men. The rebels are said to
number 10,00, and the provin
cial forces are powerless against
them.
“A governor of high rank has
been ordered a lead his troops
in person and completely to sup*
press the rebellion within a
month under penalty of severe
punish insnt.
“An imperial edict, just issu
ed, strongly censures the govern
or of Kwang Si province for de
ceiving the Emperor in July last
by representing that the
rebellion had been suppressed.”
CABINET RESIGNS
Lima, Peru, Sept. 3, via Gal
veston, Texas—» he congress
of Ecuador has ft u?p»*t.ded its
sessions until it can obtain gov
ernment protection. Conatq icnt
ly the cabinet has resigned.
iWkewuEyt,
The discovery was made last
week that a man who has drawn
pay for five years for playing the
bassoon in the Atchison (Kan.)
municipal band could not play a
note, and that be simply kept the
instrument to hie mouth and made
motions, The Kansas City Journal
observes that “but for the blare of
a discordant note now and again
in the band at the State House
one might feel assured that Gov
ernor Leedy was practicing the
same sort of deception.”
o o o
A late Scientific authority ns»
serts that the female brain com*
mencea to deteriorate at 30 years
of age. while that of the male does
not start to go *ill 40. Without
stopping to ask what good ir ac
nomplwled bv giving away thest
stum ■icietn, since few of the sex
urs said to ever reach 30. ‘here are,
A CLEVER TRICK.
It certainly looks like it, but
there is really no trick about it,
Anybody can try it who
Lime Back and Weak Kidneys,
Malaria or nervous troubles.We
mean he can cure himself right
away by taking Electric Bittera.
This medicine tones up the whole
system, acts as a stimulant to
Liver and Kidneys, is a blood
purifier and nerve tonic. It cures
Constipation, Headache, Faint
ing Spells, Sleeplessness and
Melancholy. It is purely vegeta
ble, a mild laxative, and restores
he system to its natural vigor.
Try Electric Bitters and*be con
vinced that tljey are a miracle
worker Every bottle guaranteed
Only 50c a bottle at Curry Ar—
ington drug ato re.
psychological reasons that make
the statement doubtful any way.
As no woman, no matter the age
she may confess to, ever neglects
seeing that her hat is on straight,
this shows her interest in a level
bead, and that a level bead is
synonymous with superior brain
power goes without saying.
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The appointmant last Monday
of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee,
wife of a New York professor and
daughter of Simon Newcomb, the
astronomer, as an acting assistant
surgeon of the army, is said to be
the first case in the history of the
American army of a woman's
serving on the medical staff. The
appointment entitles her to the
uniform of a second lieutenant
without designation of rank.
While it is not probable that the
Doctor will don the uniform, a
strict interpretation or the rules
would possibly compel het to do
so. Throughout the wir Dr McGee
has been in charge of the •*»lection
»t the woman nurses, and t>f the
700 or more now in the field most
iave passed musUr at her bands.
Ob Q i
While Commodore Scbley was
nking Cervrer’n diet he kedt the
men on his shift informed of what
waa going on, Whan everything
was distroyed or surrendered but
the Colon, he dispatched orderlies
to the |stoke holes and engine
rooms saying. Now, toy a, it all
depends on you. Everything is
sunk except the Colon, and she ia
trying to get away. W« don’t want
her to, and everything depends on
you.”
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The Rev. George R. Vaudewater,
chaplain of what is left of the
Seventy-first New York Regiment
saya that while in Cuba before
Santiago, the m«n were so hungry
at times that they caught laud
crabe and made sandwiches by
putting them between two pieces
of hard tack. Any one wbo cares
to get a fair estimate of thia de
gree of hunger can do so by look-i
ing up the land crab in books on I
the subject and learning its habits
and me'hods of subsistence. The
chaplain also says that of the
men of the regiment fertv are dead
five insane and 400 physical
wrecks.
o o o
ie Curot, a young sales
woman in a Parisian dry goods
shop is declared by many to be the
most beatatiful woman in the city,
is at present the erase of the French
capital. She personated the “Muse
of Poetry” in crowning with laurel
bust of Michelet, and was dis
charged by her employers for her
participation in that ceremony.
A movement is on foot to furnish
her with a shop of her own by pop
ular subscription.
o o o
The confusing news reaches this
country from Madrid via Washing
ton that Admirad Cervera, instead
of being court-martialed, as was
first intended, is to be received
with honor and that a flying squad
ron of Spaniidi ships is being col
lected "at Cadiz to go to meet the
defended sailor at Southampton.
England. There ia as yet no specu
lation as to the cause of thie sudw
d< n change in the determination
ul li t Spanish Government.
o o o
Ou Mount Royal avenue, be
tween Lanyale atfeet and Lafayette
avenue, Baltimore, there been
noticed a curious natural phenom
enon this year in the shape of a
second growth of leaves on a num
ber of linden trees that shade the
sidewalks. The first foliage with
ered a.id tell to the ground after a
prolonged period ot dry weather,
then came two or three weeks of
heavy rains, and the trees were
Boon tuick with a new growth of
deep green leaves. On’y the you.ig
er trees were thus rejuvenated.
o o o
The Arabs attach great impor
tance to tho water supply of their
communities, aud travelers say
that where a rich American would
bequeath money to founding a
hospital or decorating a church, a
rich Arab can think of no other 1
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 Chattanooga
and return home same evening.
The schedule between these
points is as follows. Leave Rome «
1:00 a. m. arrive Caattanooga
4 :15 a. m.; leave Rome 10 .35
arrive Chattanooga 1: 00 p.
leave Rome 6 :25 a. m. arrive
Chattanooga 8 :50 p. tn. There
is also a local train leaving Rome
3:50 p. m. going by the way of
Cohutta and Cleveland and ar
rives Chattanooga 7:20 p. u.
Returning, trains leave Chatta
nooga 6 :30 a. in. arrive Rome
9: 00 a. m. ; leave Chattanooga
3 :10 p. in. arrive Rome 5 :3o p.
m.; leave Chattanooga 10:10 P
arrive Rome 1:44 a. m. Pull
man sleeping cars on all trains
For further information C'‘H
on C. Harrison, C. T. A.
e-x-ji. i— —-s- "*
channel for his charity ll.au tie
construction ot a fountain which
will assure him the ble J «ing<
future gouorations.
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Editor Triplett thinks it >epr ,,h *
able that McKmley (l will advah<*
Mark Hanna three or lour l» u1 '
bars.
o o o
“One of tbe lessons of the war,
says the Detroit Free Press, *"
that battleships should be
fireproof. If Spain had built noU
combustible boat* some of th®®
would still be in service—iu
United States navy ”
EMPEROR KWANG SU ILL
A Dispatch From Peking SaV s
China’s Ruler la I'l-
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London, Sept. 3.—Emf*
Kwang Su of China, accor
to a dispatch from Peking
Daily Mail, ia eeri'“
ill.