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PHIL G. BYRD.
f'EDITOR AND MANAGER.
OfflM Wilkerson Block, Third Avenue
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Has Li Hung Chang recovered
His wardrobe?
With the feet-ball season ripen
ing, the barbers have begun to
kick.
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The umbrella business has
certainly been in the swim for a
season.
Our peace commission is no
longer at sea—it has made the
landing.
Is our immunes of the genu
ine article? Behold the fever
records!
Morgan county is going to
giye Candler arousing majority.
—Madisonian.
Artificial limbs are usually
made of willow wood, on account
of its lightness
On the face of the subject it
would seem that Gen. Miles had
a close shave while in Porto
Rico.
The fund being raised for a
Schley sword by the Philadel
phia Tinies has now passed the
$1,600 mark.
Lieut. Hobson has, it is said,
refused an offer of $50,000 for
50 nights on the lecture plat
sorm. Brave Hobson.
Perhaps, as old Li Hung’s
friend, the emperor, removed
his yellow jacket because of its
yellow (Spanish) color.
The Americus Herald says
Sumter county will give Allen
D. Candler a rousing 'majority.
So will every other county in the
state. —Acworth Post.
It is suggested by the Phila
delphia Ledger that there is an
apparent disposition in Spanish
political circles to make Gen.
Toral the Dreyfus of Spain.
The Telfair Yeoman thinks
that the Georgia boys will all be
dead with old age, before they
find out whether they are to be
mustered out or kept in service.
The sugar trust and coffee
trust are warring. Now, if there
were a cream trust, and all of
them should get together, it
would be quite a morning
event.
F. B. Mayer has been paid
$2,800 by the state of Maryland
for his picture of the “Burning
of Peggy Stewart,” which is to
be hung in the house of dele
gates.
Boring a hole halfway through
the sole of a shoe is said to pre
vent its squeaking. The reason
assigned is that the air between
the layers of the leather is re
leased by the boring.
O’Donovan Rossa, the well
known agitator, has been ap
pointed by Mayor Van Wyck as
Inspector es Weights and Meas
ures of the borough of Richmond
at a salary of SI,BOO.
As the opponents of Teddy’s
nomination as referred to as
Black men, it seems a timely and
» political stroke for him to claim
JF that his supporters are the white
men.—Augusta Chronicle.
“The Ameer ol Afghanistan
takes great pride in his gun fac
tory at Kabul, over which Sir
Salters Pyne presides,” said the
New Yotk Tiibune. “He insists
that his khans shall visit it.
Amra Khan, who controls a dis
tant mountain region, came in
one day, and after seeing the
works asked Sir Salters : ‘Now,
tell me in words just how you
make guns.’ ‘lt is quite easy,’
answered Pyne; ‘you make a
hole first, and then wrap some
iron around it.’ ‘Ahl’ said Amra
Khan sorrowfully, ‘there is
plenty of air for the hole in my
country, only no one there knows
how to wrap the iron around
it.’ ” _____
Spokane, Washington, is now
facetiously called the “City of
Busted Millionaires.” The beau
tiful residences of the town were
built on a blurt overlooking the
river, and were originally de
signed for two classes of citizens
the real estate men and the bank
ers. They are now said to be
principally occupied by the law
yers who acted as receivers for
the banks, or ( who otherwise
helped to conduct those and oth
er institutions trough insolven
cy-
An instance company having
its headquarters in New York
has applied to the Maine State
authorities tor information as to
the number of persons killed or
injured while hunting in the
woods last year, with the view
of issuing a new form of life and
accident policy especially for
sportsmen. There were thirteen
fatal shooting accidents in the
Maine woods in 1897.
Atlanta should not be so pig
gish about the Second regiment.
Two companies of that regiment
would much prefer to camp in
Augusta and their families are
eager to welcome their loved
ones home.—Augusta Chronicle.
Make it “one” instead of
“two” and change the name
from “Augusta” to “Rome” and
t|iems our sentiments to a T,
Why is it Gov. Atkinson and
Major Bacon are not being given
assignments as campaign orators
by Chairman dußigaon?—Meri
wether Vindicator.
Perhaps Mr. dußiguon has
been able to see that these
worthies have already worked
themselves down in manipula
ting the military wires,
The Swainsboro News says
that it devours the Macon Tele
graph’s editorials as eagerly as
a picnic dinner.—Hard times
in Georgia are making some ed
itors very careless about their
diet. The editor of the News
must have the digestive powers
of a goat.—Sparta Ishmaelite.
All hail to the boys of the
Second Georgia and to Company
II who assemble at Rome to be
mustered out. It matters little
whether they fought or stayed
in aamp, they have just cause
to “Remember the Maine.” All
hail to the Second Georgia.—
Cartersville News.
If the investigating commit
tee succeeds in discovering
“who” is to blame in the war
department, then the president
should ask said committee to
try to unravel the mystery about
the identity of the individual
who committed the assault on
Billy Patterson.
The market gardeners of
Maryland are discouraged over
the ravages of the celery web
worm in their extensive celery
fields. No way has yet been
found to destroy this industrious
pest without blighting the crop.
I ATLANTA’S GAME OF GRAB.
The statement that all the
companies of the Second are to
remain in Atlanta until after
they are paid off, discloses the
milk in the cocanut, and exposes
the nigger in the woodpile.
It is one of Atlanta’s shrewd
grabs for the fresh crisp notes
with which Uncle Sam requites
those in his employ. As this is
an age of hustle and grab, and
Atlanta is always in the push
we do not so much blame Atlan
ta’s gree las we condemn the
vacillating and purile policy of
a war department that does not
known its mind for three con
secutive hours, but issues orders
at breakfast to be changed at
dinner and countermanded at
supper.
The idea that companies resi
dent in Augusta should be kept
for weeks in Atlanta after the
orders for mustering out and
furlough have been issued,away
from their homes and loved
ones simply to gratify Atlanta’s
vanity in desiring the whole
regiment returned there, and
her greed fortheir pay, is simply
outrageous to contemplate.
The Augusta companies are
eager to come home ; their fam
ilies are anxious for their return
and no other course was con
templated until Atlanta’s greed
for spectacular display and first
go at the “swag” succeeded in
countermanding the orders of a
department that has neither
mind nor backbone of its own.
Since it is impossible for the
war department to injure its rep
utation any further by vacilla
tion, it might change again, in
the interest of humanity, and
order the Augusta companies to
their home, instead of keeping
them five hours travel distant,
simply to gratify Atlanta’s spir
it of grab.—Augusta Chronicle.
Ras Makonnen, who com
manded the Abyssiniap army
that thrashed the existence out
of the Italian army several
months ago, is with Captain
Marchand at Fashoda. If Sir
Herbert Kitchener concludes to
mix matters with the Frenchman
Ras will find nothing noodish or
macaronis!) about the Britisher.
He will certainly find before the
daggoes that he is not monkey
ing with an organ crank.
Alger says the newspaper are
trying to make him a scape goat
for the republican party. From
the odor arising from the war
department, it would seem that
if Alger is not a goat he is a
herder of the beast.
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ture death it is
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ture Intended
that every man
should live a
long and useful
life, and die a
peaceful, pain
less death.
Men defeat the
intention of a
beneficent
Providence by
the manner in
which they
live, their disregard of the laws of health
and their utter failure to protect health
when it is threatened and restore it when
it is lost. The most common result of neg
lect of health is that dread disease, con
sumption. Not many years ago it was con
sidered incurable. Now it is known that
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery will
cure 98 per cent, of all cases if taken in
time. That is its record during a period of
thirty years Many of the thankful patients
have permitted their names, experiences
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ville, Berks Co., I*a. “They told me there »m
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FACTS WORTH KNOWING
Cieifuegoes was named after
Cienfuegos y lovellaroes Jose,
who was captain general in Cuba
from 1816 to 1819.
Jamaica is a corruption of
Xaymaco, a native West Indian
name, signifying the country
abounding in springs.
British war vessels are furn
ished with lightning rods, and
Mr. Edison claims that they are
an indispensable protection to
all ships.
Tobago island was so called
by Columbus from its fancied
resemblance tQ the tobacco or
inhaling tube of the aborigines .
Our word tobacco is thence de
rived.
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Santiago is the Spanish form
for St. James. The city of Santi
ago de Cuba was founded in
1514, and for seyeral years was
the capital of the island.
Manila was founded by the
Spaniards in 1571. It was taken
by the English in 1862, but re
stored to Sgain. It has often
been devastated by earthquakes.
Yucatan is a compound Indian
word, meaning “What do
say?” which was the only an
swer the Spaniards could obtaifi
from the natives concerning
their country.
Spain expresses the English
of History, a word founded upon
the Punic “span,” a rabbit,
owing to the number of wild
rabbits found in the peninsula
by the Carthagenians.
Porto Rico was discovered in
1492 by Columbus, but was con
quered by Ponce de Leon, 1508-
30, who, it is said, reduced 600,-
000 natives to slavery. They
were afterward exterminated.
It costs the auxiliary cruisers
St. Louis and Harvard $50,000 a
year for the handling and
loading of coal after the fuel is
purchased. It requires forty
hours for one of the ships to take
on 3,000 tons.
Telegraph operators in war
are mere civilians, but Congress
man Belknap has a plan to or
ganize the the telegraph branch
of the military service into an
officered department, having
rank and prestige with the med
ical cprps.
A correspondent of the New
York Times calls atfcension to
the fact that while the illustrat
ed weeklies and other periodicals
have published countless pic
tures of scenes in the late war,
there have been printed no com
prehensive photographs of the
battle fields of San Juan and El
Catey ; nor has there been any
large view showing the character
of die ground fought over on
th* slope of San Juan, where
slsich awful carnage ensued.
“Ve find no end of fragmentary
bits of the battle,” says this wri
ter, “but nothing oomprehen
sve at all; and it seems as if
tie camera people skipped out
cf Cuba the very day after the
rarrender, and left the job un
inished.”
Fourteen Atlanta citizens
have announced as candidates
for the office of city sexton. It
must be a dead easy job—grave
ly speaking.
Col. Ted Roosevelt has placed
himself in the hands of Thomas
Catt Platt and Lemuel Eli
Quigg. The leader of the rough
rider will die between two
thieves,
The citizens of Raleigh, N.
C., are raising a fund for a mon
ument to the memory of Lieut.
Shipp, Tenth Cavalry, United
States array, who was killed at
Santiago. It now amounts to
SIBOO.
Mark Hanna made the pre
diction that the president would
ignore the demand for an inves
tigation in the war department,
and then he retired to his cy
clone pit. Major Dick should
call down to Mark and whisper
him a verse or two.
Prof, and Mrs. Mclntosh, ac
companied by Mrs. Sidney Las
celles, the wife of tha notorious
“Lord Baresford” left on Sunday
for their future home in Provi
deuce, R. I.—Fitzgerald Citizen.
What has become of Lady
Pelky-Beresford’s Lord Ah Sid?
In a primary, held in Joe
Wheeler’s district, Saturday, he
was unanimously renominated
for congress. Democrats, popu
lists and republicans all voted
for him. The Ishmaelite knows
of no other instance of the kind
in political history.—The old
cavalryman has a right to feel
proud of the distinction.—Spar
ta Ishmaelite.
Church music in the West
Indies is nothing if not lively.
Says the Roseau Dominican:
“The special service offered on
behalf of his lordship Bishop
Naughton came off admirably
well at the Catholic church, St.
Joseph, on Tuesday, last. The
choir, assisted by a string band
consisting cf a bass drum, tam
borine, accordions and a trian
gle, opened the expectations of
the day; and the adding of such
musical instruments as afore
named tended greatly to im
prove the singing, during which
many musket shots were fired
off in the church ground, coup
led with the ringing of the bells
all served in making the gath
ering a happy one.”
YOUNG LADY GRADUATES
Os the Rome Business College
are thoroughly prepared for
stenographic and office work ;
they are found capable when
f /•/•L
they go into
business prac
tice ; they re
ceive high
comm enda
tions from,
their employ-’
ers as being
capable and experienced,
Rome business College enjoys
the largest enrollment of pupils
it has had in its history. There
will be thousands of vancancies
this fall to fill. Young in n and
ladies will do well to enter here
and prepare lor thorough com
mercial work.
H. S. Shockley,
Princpial.
TAX NOTICE.
The last half of tax for 1898 is
now’ due the city of Rome. All
persons owing taxes are hereby
notified to call at the Clerk’s of
fice at the city hall and settle.
Sept. 16th 1898.
Ha lstk p Smith, Clerk Council.
New crop cocoanuts, nice
peaches, grapes, pears, quinces
and other select fruits received
daily at Lloyd’s.
HOW’S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dol
lars Reward for any case of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have
known F. J. Chenev for the last
15 years, and believe him to be
financially able to carry out any
obligation tiade by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, O.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Testimonials sent
freo. Price 75c per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Hall’s Family Pills are the
best.
Beware of Imitations
MM. ll* MM.
ST LOUIS. MO. AND RETURN
On account of the Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows (colored,)
St Louis, Mo., October 4-10, 1898
the Southern railway will sell
round trip tickets at the very low
rate of $16.85, lickets on sale
October 2, 3 and 4th with final
limit returning October lßtb,
1898.
See that your ticket readea via
the Southern railway. Finest trains
quickest time.
J. N. Harrison, C. T. A.
The Indianapolis News wants
to make a match between Hob
son and Miss Helen Gould.
PROFESSIOHAL CARDS
ATTORNEYS.
J. BR.A.NHAM,
Law Office 200, East| Firstreet;Bt,
CHAS W. UNDERWOOD
Artornay at Law, Ro <■ •
Crcpoiaion Law Oulyr
W. jf. neel
Attorney at law. Will practice In all ocurts.
Special attention given to commercial la*
ant) the examication cf land titles.
office in King building, Rome, G*.
WALTER, HARRI 3.
Attorney at law and J. P. Office aver F- J.
Kane & Co.’s.
LIPtSOOMB de IWILLINUM AM
Commercial Lawyers.
Gffice in Armstrong hotel building, Route, <J*
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MB EUBANK3,
Atterney at law, offieeKing Hulldtag,
Route, ya.
W . H. ENNIS,
Attorney at Law. Will Practice in all coart*
Office, Masonic Temple, Rome, Ga.
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Attorney at law, Rome. Ga. Collections »
specialty.
Masonic Temple. Rome, Go.
MOSES » RIGHT. HARPER HAMM/TOM
WRIGHT & HAMILTON
Attorneys at Law.
Office: No. 14 Postoffice Building
DENTISTS.
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Office 340 1-3 Broad. * Over Cantrell * Owen
J. L. PENNINGTON. D.D S.,M Di
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Office, 306 1-3 Broad street. Over Hanks F“ r
suture Co.
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Physician and Surgeon Office, Medical
Building Rome. Ga. Office ‘phone No. »•
Li- F M AMMONO. **
Physician and Surgeon, JOffice in
tullding. Residence, No. 4*> West Fir*
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